All Men Want to Know - Nina Bouraoui
All Men Want to Know - Nina Bouraoui 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…
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All Men Want to Know - Nina Bouraoui
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. When something unspeakable happens to her mother, the family flee to Paris.In Paris, Nina lives alone. 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.
It's the 1980s. She is eighteen years old. 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