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Joy Majdalani’s debut novel chronicles the intensity of the emerging desire of adolescent girls for boys in the privileged context of a Catholic institution in Beirut, Lebanon.
In the epigraph of the novel, a very short sentence from Charles d’Orléans: “I’m dying of thirst near the fountain”. This sentence describes the narrator’s pangs quite well. A 13-year-old girl who has only one desire: a taste of boys.
When the novel begins, no boy has yet shown the slightest interest in her, yet she is consumed with desire. His body and his mind envy his classmates who dared to take the plunge, and who they discovered those pleasures of the flesh that the morality of their bourgeois and Christian environment condemns.
In an often insolent, sometimes raw, always chiseled writing, Joy Majdalani delivers a fiery, incandescent and spicy first novel. “The taste of boys” is published by Editions Grasset.
On the menu of this Café Gourmand:
- Marjorie Bertin went to the Théâtre de la Tempête to see the play “Rebibbia” staged by Louise Vignaud.
- Fanny Bleichner presents the immersive creation “Radio Daisy” by Cécile Léna to see at the Maison de la Radio in Paris.
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