All Men Want to Know

Beschreibung

'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters <BR><BR>AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<BR>WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD <BR><BR>All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert.

Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country. <BR><BR>In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires, her sudden and intoxicating freedom.

In her solitude, she starts to write - and finds herself writing about her mother.<BR><BR>All Men Want to Know is a haunting, lyrical international bestseller about mothers and daughters, about shame and sexuality, about existing between two cultures and belonging to neither. A phenomenon in France, this is a defining portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest living writers. <BR><BR>'Blown away by the power and lyricism of All Men Want to Know.

What a book. Read it' Niven Govinden, author of THIS BRUTAL HOUSE <BR><BR>'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel' Elle <BR><BR>'A tour de force' Le Figaro<BR><BR>'Haunting, spell-binding, luminous' Lire

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