'My ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their men.'
Badra is a young Berber girl from a North African village who is married off to an old man, and brutally raped on her wedding night. She thinks sexual pleasure exists only for men, until she escapes from her cruel husband to the city. Then she meets a handsome doctor who introduces her to a new world of sexual passion...
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 bonds of cultural tradition and unashamedly demand their right to pleasure.
- ISBN10 1448109361
- ISBN13 9781448109364
- Publish Date 30 November 2011 (first published 29 April 2005)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 23 March 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Transworld Digital
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 256
- Language English