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What I Know About You - cover

What I Know About You

Éric Chacour

Translator Pablo Strauss

Publisher: Coach House Books

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NOMINATED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 
LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025 
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024  
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE 
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS 
FINALIST FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE  
STARRED REVIEWS IN KIRKUS, BOOKLIST AND QUILL & QUIRE 
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. 
As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eyes of his mother and his sister, he starts to do just that – until Ali enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men, from very different worlds, embark on an unsayable relationship that threatens to tear apart Tarek’s family.Years later, as Tarek is living a solitary life in Montreal, someone starts 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 he figure it out in time? 
A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycéens, What I Know About You is poised to be an international sensation. 
"This novel is a searing love story that moves between Egypt and Montréal, that shifts between hearts, highlighting the sacrifices the characters feel they have to make for the ones they love. Romantic, surprising, mesmerizing, and so devastating, What I Know About You examines the terrible costs of family secrets and toxic shame." – Suzette Mayr, author of The Sleeping Car Porter
Available since: 09/24/2024.
Print length: 220 pages.

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