What God Hides From Us is a dystopian novel set in a nameless world with no borders, no neighbors, and no clear geography. Its inhabitants believe they live in a “world of crocodiles,” a universe in which human lives are offered as sacrifices to a sacred system built on fear, obedience, and ritualized violence.
The novel is narrated by Alga, a nun who was abducted as a child from her village because she was born on the “forbidden day.” She is raised inside a temple that worships crocodiles and gradually transforms religion, law, justice, and the human body into instruments of total control. From early childhood, Alga and other children are subjected to systematic indoctrination: violence is celebrated, cruelty is normalized, fear is sanctified, and submission is presented as salvation.
Written in a clear, accessible, and deliberately report-like style, the novel exposes the inner mechanisms through which political, religious, and legal dictatorships manufacture obedience and maintain domination. It reveals how gods are constructed as tools of power, how law is weaponized to legitimize crime, how the body is disciplined in the name of purity, and how justice itself becomes a method of oppression.
The narrative reaches a decisive turning point when Alga witnesses the system’s attempt to eliminate a newborn child whose only “crime” is having an abnormally large head — a symbol of potential awareness and intellectual threat. In trying to save the child, Alga is forced to confront the entire structure of power and begins to uncover the secrets behind the production of fear, the normalization of tyranny, and the transformation of individuals into expendable fuel for the survival of the regime.
What God Hides From Us is neither an attack on faith nor a theological argument. It is a satirical and symbolic dystopia that dismantles the foundations of authoritarian control, showing how power hides behind the sacred and how individuals are encouraged to participate willingly in their own destruction in the name of belief, law, or survival.
Written under real threat and censorship, the novel does not seek literary ornamentation but functions as testimony, exposure, and resistance. This narrative document asks readers to confront the price of surrendering their minds and dignity to any system that claims absolute truth.
Anouar Rahmani
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