All Men Want to Know av Nina Bouraoui

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<p><b>''Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read'' Sarah Waters</b><br><b><br>AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br>WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD</b><br><br><i>All Men Want to Know</i> 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. <br><br>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.<br><br><i>All Men Want to Know</i> is a haunting,