All Men Want to Know
'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive' SARAH WATERS
$24.26
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
A haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violence.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241447734 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241447739 |
| Author: | Nina Bouraoui, Aneesa Abbas Higgins |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
A tour de force
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 *
A deeply personal exploration of cultural and personal identity, sexuality and belonging. Raw and sensual, readers will be enraptured by the narrator’s intense evocations of guilt, desire and longing * Scotsman *
About The Author
Nina Bouraoui
Nina Bouraoui (Author)
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.
Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)
Aneesa Abbas Higgins is an award-winning translator. Her most recent translation is Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin. She lives in London.
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