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Avant Les Hommes

Avant Les Hommes

Bouraoui, Nina

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234060397
ISBN13: 9782234060395
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.22 Width: 4.72 Depth: 7.48
Language: French

It is the story of a boy who lives alone with his mother, in a small semi-detached house on a housing estate. It is summer, the dangerous season, the time of violence. This is the story of Jeremy, who is bored and obsessed with Sami. This is the story of a desertion.
There is no hope for love in this book because the body, feverish with waiting and frustration, takes all the space, fills it with void and vertigo. Youth is a savage state where everything can happen; everything can be destroyed because it all rests on one force: desire.
For this novel, written after Mes mauvaises pensées (prix Renaudot 2005), Nina Bouraoui chooses a male narrator. She constructs a fiery, sensual tale that unveils the tumult and fragility of adolescence. From one book to the next, Nina Bouraoui demonstrates a renewed capacity to enthrall us through the singularity and captivating power of her writing.

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