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Men Don't Cry, Paperback / softback Book

Men Don't Cry Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Mourad and his family live in Nice. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa.

Dounia, the eldest, is a staunch feminist; Mina, the youngest, blushes when the scented shower gel ad comes on.

Mourad is strangely torn between a desire for freedom and the fear of his worst nightmare: that of becoming an overweight bachelor with salt and pepper hair.

On her eighteenth birthday, Dounia leaves home for good.

She is no longer part of the family. Ten years later, Mourad's father has a stroke and makes his son promise to patch things up with his estranged sister, now a lawyer with an aspiring career in politics.

Appointed to the Parisian suburbs as a teacher-in-training, Mourad tracks down Dounia and battles to span the gulf separating her and the rest of the family.

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