'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters\nAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 
WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD\nAll 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.\nIn 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.\nAll 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.\n'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\n'Intense yet gorgeous and deeply moving, All Men Want to Know is a defining portrait of womanhood that grips at the heart of the immigrant experience, about existing between two cultures yet belonging to neither' Dazed\n'It's easy to see why this novel dominated the bestseller charts for so long in France' Monocle

All Men Want to Know: 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive' SARAH WATERS

Literature & Fiction

Bouraoui, Nina

Contemporary

VIKING

A haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violence.\nIn 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. 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. When something unspeakable happens to her mother, the family flee to Paris.\nIn Paris, Nina lives alone. She is eighteen years old. It's the 1980s. 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 freedom. There she meets the glamorous, deeply troubled Ely, her volatile friends Lizz and Laurence, and the beautiful Julia, with whom she falls desperately in love. And, most importantly, she starts to write.

All Men Want to Know

Tomboy (European Women Writers)

How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live in France when you’ve spent your childhood in Algeria with an Algerian father? Tomboy is the story of a girl whose father calls her Brio, whose alter ego is Amine, and whose mother is a blue-eyed blond. But who is she? Born five years after Algerian independence in 1967, she navigates the cultural, emotional, and linguistic boundaries of identity living in a world that doesn’t seem to recognize her. In this semiautobiographical novel, the young French Algerian author Nina Bouraoui introduces us to a girl who feels that Algeria is the country of men. Her childhood years spent in Algeria lead her to explore the borderland between genders as she tries to find her balance between nations, races, and identities. With prose modeling the rhythm of the seasons and the sea, Tomboy enters the innermost reality of a life lived on the edge of several cultures.

Literary

University Of Nebraska Press

How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live in France when you’ve spent your childhood in Algeria with an Algerian father? Tomboy is the story of a girl whose father calls her Brio, whose alter ego is Amine, and whose mother is a blue-eyed blond. But who is she? Born five years after Algerian independence in 1967, she navigates the cultural, emotional, and linguistic boundaries of identity living in a world that doesn’t seem to recognize her. In this semiautobiographical novel, the young French Algerian author Nina Bouraoui introduces us to a girl who feels that Algeria is the country of men. Her childhood years spent in Algeria lead her to explore the borderland between genders as she tries to find her balance between nations, races, and identities. With prose modeling the rhythm of the seasons and the sea, Tomboy enters the innermost reality of a life lived on the edge of several cultures.

Bison Books

Forbidden Vision

Station Hill Press

This extraordinary first novel by a 25-year-old French-Algerian writer was accepted for immediate publication in France and went on to sell more than 120,000 copies there.Forbidden Vision is the compelling first-person account of a woman's forced enclosure among a repressive and abusive family in Moslem Algiers; her only escape from confinement is the hypnotic tale she weaves in her mind. The novel weaves together two passionately developed themes: the violent repression of women, not only by Islamic culture, but by western patriarchal culture as well; and the liberating power of the imagination. This latter theme is expressed through the expressive power of the writing itself, which is preserved in this remarkable translation.

AmazonUs/INDPB

« Pendant trois ans, je me suis rendue une fois par semaine chez le docteur C. À chaque séance, j'avais l'impression de lui donner un livre, il s'agissait toujours de liens, de séparations, de rencontres, à chaque séance, je construisais et déconstruisais un édifice amoureux. Mes Mauvaises Pensées est le récit de cette confession, j'ai voulu raconter le métier de vivre et le métier d'aimer. Ce n'est pas le récit d'une thérapie, ce n'est pas une légende, c'est un roman parce que c'est une histoire rapportée ; c'est l'histoire de ma famille, de l'Amie, de la Chanteuse, d'Hervé Guibert, c'est l'histoire de mes deux pays. Je n'ai jamais quitté l'Algérie, on m'a enlevée à l'Algérie, je n'ai jamais fait mes adieux, j'ai appris à devenir en France et je crois que je suis née deux fois. Mes Mauvaises Pensées est aussi mon retour vers le pays où j'ai laissé quelque chose qui n'a jamais cessé de grandir dans mon dos, et qui n'a jamais cessé de m'effrayer. » Nina Bouraoui

Mes mauvaises pensées

Фоліо

Câ€™est lâ€™histoire dâ€™un garÃ§on qui vit seul avec sa mÃ¨re dans un petit pavillon non loin dâ€™une citÃ©. Câ€™est lâ€™histoire dâ€™un Ã©tÃ©, saison dangereuse et violente. Câ€™est lâ€™histoire de JÃ©rÃ©mie qui sâ€™ennuie et de son obsession pour Sami. Lâ€™histoire dâ€™une dÃ©sertion aussi. Il nâ€™y a aucun espoir amoureux dans ce livre, parce que le corps prend tout, il est invasion de tout. Câ€™est le feu, câ€™est lâ€™attente, câ€™est la frustration. Câ€™est le vide et le vertige. La jeunesse est un Ã©tat sauvage oÃ¹ tout peut arriver, tout peut se dÃ©truire, parce que tout tient sur une seule force : le dÃ©sir. AprÃ¨s Mes mauvaises pensÃ©es (prix Renaudot 2005), Nina Bouraoui revient au roman avec un narrateur masculin. Un roman incandescent et sensuel qui met Ã  nu les tumultes et les fragilitÃ©s de lâ€™adolescence. De livre en livre, Nina Bouraoui affirme sa singularitÃ©, la grÃ¢ce et la voluptÃ© dâ€™une Ã©criture envoÃ»tante qui continue de nous Ã©blouir.

Avant les hommes

Genre Fiction

160pages. poche. Poche. Dans les rues d'Alger, les hommes s'étreignent. Derrière leurs portes closes, les femmes s'ennuient. Séparée de la ville par un rectangle de verre, une jeune fille observe. Un mur sale, un trolley bondé, une enfant imprudente lui donnent les mots d'une nouvelle histoire. Elle invente. Elle s'invente. Elle est pubère, son père ne lui parle pas depuis deux ans. La mère prépare l'intrigue, les soeurs se taisent. L'ennui ronge la capitale. Personne n'y échappe. Pas même le soleil! Les hommes attendent. Ils l'attendent. L'amour et l'espoir n'existent pas. Les pensées se cognent contre un espace amputé de son temps. Cachée derrière sa fenêtre, avide de savoir, la voyeuse force sur la réalité. Un voile s'éloigne, une petite fille meurt sous les pneus d'un camion. Les trous de serrure s'élargissent, la voyeuse dérobe la vie des autres. Le rêve s'impose. La mort guette. Toutes deux se convoitent, s'invitent, se rejettent. Le sang se faufile entre les mots et les maux.

La Voyeuse interdite

Poing mort

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All Men Want to Know: 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive' SARAH WATERS

All Men Want to Know

Tomboy (European Women Writers)

Tomboy (European Women Writers)

Forbidden Vision

Forbidden Vision

Mes mauvaises pensées

Avant les hommes

La Voyeuse interdite

Poing mort