Download or read book The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry written by Assia Djebar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed novelist, scholar, poet and filmmaker Assia Djebar presents a brutal yet delicate exposition of how wars are fought upon women's lives and bodies. A French woman is renamed in order to be buried beside her Algerian husband; another loses her daughter to that continental divide. Despite divergent loyalties, the human heart exists within, beneath and beyond geographical borders.