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'My ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their men.' Badra is a young girl from a traditional North African Berber village fascinated with the sensuous mystery of her own body. Grim reality intervenes when she ismarried off to a much older man, andbrutally raped on her wedding night. It is enough to convince her that sexual pleasure exists only for men and, by extension, is a woman's burden. Years after utter desperation has driven Badra to escape from her cruel husband to the city, a handsome doctor appears in her life. Driss teaches Badra to love her own body, and introduces her to a world of sexual passion that she had never imagined. But as her dependence on him intensifies so do Driss's demands, and suddenly Badra is faced with a manipulative lover forcing her into increasingly degrading sexual acts. Fighting against her urge to submit, Badramust escape this man if she is ever to rediscover her self-esteem. L'Amande, written under a pseudonym by a North African woman living in France, reads like an erotic manifesto for modern women who want to break free from the repressive bonds of cultural tradition to unashamedly demand their right to pleasure.
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Nedjma, writing under a pseudonym, is a North African Muslim. L'AMANDE is her first book and was published by Plon in France in February 2004
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"'This is a book of incredible audacity. It is the story, dense and lyrical at once, without concession and also without illusion, of sexual passion, and it is written by a woman from a Muslim culture...She revolts against her repressive upbringing, nevertheless she makes us rediscover an Islam where the most beautiful sins "earn Heaven".'" Catherine Millet, author of THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M "'A heart-rending tale told by a woman who rescues her sexuality from a culture of repression and, in the bright lights and dark place of the city, bursts into flames of anger and desire and love. An important and unforgettable read.'" Jane Juska, author of A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN "'The novel is so genuinely artful, so emotionally sincere, that the racy subject matter is eclipsed by its stunning prose.'" Publishers Weekly "'Extraordinary ... A window into a closed world ... Highly sensuous and extremely explicit.'" The Times "'The first such volume written by a Muslim woman, and, so, it brings to mind other books written by women in which sexual taboos are broken in their own era and their own way ... Catherine Millet...Jane Juska ... Before them, Maguerite Duras, Anais Ninm and "Pauline Reage".'" Glasgow Herald
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0385608578
- ISBN 13 9780385608572
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages279
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