All men want to know
Bouraoui, Nina2021
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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. In Paris, 18-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.
Main title:
All men want to know / Nina Bouraoui ; translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins.
Author:
Bouraoui, Nina, authorHiggins, Aneesa Abbas, translator
Imprint:
London : Viking, 2021.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.Originally published: 2020.
ISBN:
9780241447734 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2289582
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