The Moroccan-born writer of Lullaby returns to north Africa to explore sex, pornography and hypocrisy Leïla Slimani came to the attention of English-speaking readers with Lullaby, a novel about a nanny who kills her charges; it became a global bestseller and is now a film. But her first novel was Adèle, at the centre of which is a woman chasing empty, violent sex with men not including her husband. It was translated into English last year to mixed reviews: readers found it flat, joyless; even ...
The Moroccan-born writer of Lullaby returns to north Africa to explore sex, pornography and hypocrisy Leïla Slimani came to the attention of English-speaking readers with Lullaby, a novel about a nanny who kills her charges; it became a global bestseller and is now a film. But her first novel was Adèle, at the centre of which is a woman chasing empty, violent sex with men not including her husband. It was translated into English last year to mixed reviews: readers found it flat, joyless; even ...
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