All Men Want to Know

All Men Want to Know
Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Nina Bouraoui
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Paperback
h200 x 130mm - 192pg
6 May 2021 UK
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9780241447734
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In All Men Want to Know the author traces her blissful childhood in Algeria, a sun-soaked paradise, recalling long trips across the desert with her mother and sister and hazy summer afternoons spent on the beach with her friend Ali. But Nina' s mother is French - moving to Algeria for love at a time when most Europeans were desperate to leave - and as civil war approaches, their sunny idyll gives way to increasingly hostile and violent outbreaks. When something unspeakable happens to her mother, the family flee to Paris. In Paris, Nina lives alone. She is eighteen years old. It' s the 1980s. Four nights a week she walks across Paris to a legendary women-only nightclub, the Katmandou. She sits alone at the bar, afraid of her own desires, of her sudden and intoxicating freedom. There she meets the glamorous, deeply troubled Ely, her volatile friends Lizz and Laurence, and the beautiful Julia, with whom she falls desperately in love. And, most importantly, she starts to write.
Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read -- Sarah Waters, Booker-shortlisted author of Fingersmith, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger A tour de force * Le Figaro * Haunting, spell-binding, luminous * Lire * An incandescent writer * Les Echos * Magnificent. . . a captivating autobiographical novel * Elle *
Nina Bouraoui was born in 1967 to a French mother and an Algerian father. She lived in Algiers until the age of fourteen before moving to France and becoming a writer. She is one of France' s most renowned living novelists, and has won several prestigious literary prizes, including the Prix Emmanuel Robles, the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Renaudot, and she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her novels have been translated into over 15 languages.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241447734
Published: 6 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 200mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 139g
Pages: 192

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