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All Men Want to Know
- Author
- Nina Bouraoui
- Narrator
- Sara Powell
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 13 August 2020
- Run Time
- 3 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
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.
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.
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.
'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel' Elle
'It's easy to see why this novel dominated the bestseller charts for so long in France' Monocle
© Nina Bouraoui 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Details
- Author
- Nina Bouraoui
- Narrator
- Sara Powell
- Duration
- 3 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 August 2020
- ISBN
- 9780241991701
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 3.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD 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. 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. 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. 'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel' Elle 'It's easy to see why this novel dominated the bestseller charts for so long in France' Monocle © Nina Bouraoui 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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