Descrizione
Sarah is sixteen. Apart from her terracotta-colored skin, her elongated eyes and her gazelle legs, she has nothing, but she knows what boys want. So when she meets Driss, who has everything but has never kissed, she does everything she can to be his. Marrying him would mean forgetting the shanty town where she lives, freeing herself from a mother who weighs one hundred and ten kilos and gives herself to anyone just to be able to do the shopping, leave hunger behind and have the right to enter the beautiful world of Casablanca. Under a sun as dangerous as a shipwreck, on expanses of scorching sand, at the edges of dream pools and at parties where drugs are passed from hand to hand, a love is consumed that is capable of telling the ferocity of social relationships, the oppression of women (whatever class they belong to) and the adolescent desire to escape elsewhere. But for girls like Sarah, blessed with a body that drives men crazy but condemned to a destiny determined by wealth and gender, elsewhere risks being too far away. From one of the most promising authors on the French literary scene, a poignant, romantic and pop coming-of-age novel, vital and full of atmosphere, that gives a voice to those who have none, and through the meeting of two very distant and similar souls explores all the nuances of injustice, privilege and the stubborn search for another possible future.
