All Men Want to Know

All Men Want to Know is a haunting, lyrical French bestseller that explores desire, shame, and violence in Paris and Algiers.

This gripping novel follows the author's blissful childhood in Algeria, recalling long trips across the desert with her mother and sister and sunny afternoons spent on the beach with her friend Ali.

However, as civil war approaches, their idyllic life gives way to increasingly hostile and violent outbreaks.

When something unspeakable happens to her mother, the family flees to Paris, where Nina lives alone at the age of 18.

She spends four nights a week walking across Paris to a legendary women-only nightclub, the Katmandou, where she meets glamorous and troubled friends and starts to write.

This captivating autobiographical novel has been praised as "intense," "gorgeous," and "troubling" by critics, and is sure to leave readers surrendered to its beauty.