Chaos of the Senses

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Love always sits in a seat other than the one we were expecting it to, right alongside the place where we expected love to be In the midst of the Algerian civil war, Hayat is a young novelist trapped in a loveless marriage. While her husband, a high-ranking officer, preoccupies himself with politics, Hayat finds freedom from her highly regimented life in the world of her writing. There she weaves a passionate story for her characters. But the line between fiction and reality blurs when she falls for a man who seems to have walked straight out of the pages of her notebook, a man who seduces her, instead of her heroine, with his silence. As love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out in the dark corners of a broken city, Hayats country convulses with political upheaval. In a place where those who dare to write the truth are made to pay a heavy price, she and her characters will discover that no one can truly be the author of their own destiny. The second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from the literary phenomenon (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Chaos of the Senses is a powerful story of love, identity and liberation.

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A window into a different world * Daily Mail on The Bridges of Constantine *
Remarkable, insightful ... The elegiac quality is present not just in the themes, but also in the astonishingly poetic language throughout I stopped and marvelled every few pages ... This is one of the richest and most evocative books that I have read all year, I only hope we dont have to wait too long for the two sequels to The Bridges of Constantine to be published in English. The Arab-speaking world shouldnt get to keep Mosteghanemis novels all to itself * Independent *
Ahlem has carved a place for herself as one of the most important writers of the Arab world * Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director, winner of the Cannes Film Lifetime Achievement Award *

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Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author in the Arab world. In December 2016 she was designated UNESCO Artist for Peace. She has more than 10 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in the top ten most influential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. The previous book in her trilogy of bestselling novels, The Bridges of Constantine, was published by Bloomsbury, and has been translated into several languages and adapted into a television series.