Publisher's Synopsis
WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA DES LYCEENS, PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS AND PRIX PREMIERE PLUME 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA, PRIX RENAUDOT AND PRIX DU ROMAN FNAC 2023
‘A debut that reads like a classic’ Le Figaro
1960s Cairo. Tarek’s whole life is planned out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is well respected in society.
Then Ali, the son of one of his patients, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men’s unsayable relationship sparks a series of events just as dramatic as the Six-Day War playing out in the background.
The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time?
What I Know About You is the heartbreaking story of a family torn apart by an epic love.
