Barkahoum and Abraham are a modern day Jewish-Muslim couple in the Algerian capital. In a pizzeria in Algiers' fashionable district, they tell each other stories, their history and that of their ancestors: Andalusia, North Africa – the expulsion. For centuries, Jews and Muslims lived peacefully side by side, shared common places, and maintained similar customs. Like a ring parable that raises the equality of all monotheistic religions to a principle, Zaoui, for whom the banishment of the body from public places and the feigned prudery in Muslim society are a thorn in the side, is circumcised according to Jewish-Muslim tradition Link of the unifying ring of the novel.

Translated from French byChristine Belakhdar