Description"Fascinating .
Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children..
A journalist and frequent commentator on women\'s and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron\'s personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France\'s annual list of The Fifty Most Influential French People in the World.
She won the La Mamounia Prize for Adčle.
About the Author Leila Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review\'s 10 Best Books of the Year, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France\'s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt.
Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Ad le is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman\'s quest to feel alive.
Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Ad le organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she\'s been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making.
But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex.
Ad le appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son.
Ad le has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review " A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment Weekly From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wants only one thing: to be wanted. . .
Description"Fascinating
