All Men Want to Know [electronic resource]

Bouraoui, Nina2020

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Summary

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. In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi’s lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Through brilliant analysis, Linguaglossa gives us a complete picture of de Palchi’s asymptomatic creative paradigm."Blown away by the power and lyricism of All Men Want to Know. What a book. Read it" -- Niven Govinden, author of This Brutal House"Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel" -- Elle "It's easy to see why this novel dominated the bestseller charts for so long in France" -- Monocle