"Choukri is a powerful teller of stories. His telling of oppression is vivid and remarkable."--Morning Star

The story of Mohamed Choukri's life is continued in the sequel to For Bread Alone. In his early twenties, Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read and write. When not at school he hangs out in cafes, drinking and smoking kif. Some nights he sleeps in a dosshouse, but mostly he sleeps in mosques or on the street, while local prostitutes take him home, providing some human solace.

Mohamed Choukri is one of North Africa's most...

In a rare glimpse at the real life of a porn star, Heather Hunter shares a fictional account inspired by her own emergence in the adult film industry with the story of Simone Young. Simone is dying to become a star but her mother thinks if she's old enough to stay out all night partying, then she's old enough to get a real job. And that is exactly what Simone does, only she finds work in a world that changes her life forever. When Simone's best friend Carmen introduces her to the game of sex work, she embarks on a path she could have never imagined. Heather Hunter's Insatiable is...

A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War.

The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known....

Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator...

Sometimes, late at night in the hotel room, after the lights have gone out and the mistakes have already been made, when it is heavy and silent and still, I lie awake and listen to my pulse on the pillow...

Imagine you are on a tour bus, the miles whistling away beneath you as you sleep. Tomorrow you will wake up in downtown Somewhere. It doesn't matter. All the skylines look the same. Time is only marked by events. The...

AN ALMOST NORMAL LIFE

"This book is in Romanian. It contains short stories that reflect an extraordinary life under the self-ironizing title an almost normal life.""

Titlul cărţii este ironic: viaţa din care se inspiră autoarea (propria viaţă, desigur) nu este în niciun caz o viaţă obişnuită. De aceea ironia din titlu o înţelegem când terminăm cartea de citit. Viaţa unei femei care devine de mică orfană de tată, trăieşte într-o familie care pierde toate...