Nina Bouraoui

pretty good though some small sections could've been excised

*** : Sylvie, la cinquantaine, récemment divorcée d'un homme gentil, un travail peu gratifiant et deux fils. Rien que de très banal. Sauf que un jour c'est le naufrage, la journée de trop. Ecriture sobre, limpide. Un beau livre.

Short but haunting. A diary/autofiction of the author during the 1980s as she loses herself in writing, in love and in discovering the Parisian lesbian scene.

Poignant beyond words...Even if only half of it represents the true plight of Algerian Moslem women - it's still inconceivable; but I suspect that the writer would not be playing fantasy with such a subject.