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

All Men Want to Know is a haunting, lyrical international bestseller about mothers and daughters, shame, sexuality, existing between two cultures, and belonging to neither.

This phenomenal book 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.

However, when racial tensions surface in their neighborhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country.

In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone, spending four nights a week at The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires, and finds herself writing about her mother.

This captivating autobiographical novel is a defining portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest living writers.

Don't miss out on this powerful and moving book that has blown away readers with its power and lyricism.