# All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui (Paperback)

**'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters**  
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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.  
  
**'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  
  
'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_**  
  
**_'_It's easy to see why this novel dominated the bestseller charts for so long in France' _Monocle_**

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** National Geographic Books
- **Tags:** All Books, Romance

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