Basile Tocquard is a handsome, wealthy, Parisian bank manager. Born in Algeria, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety, and devout Islamism. But now the time has come for him to find a suitable apartment in the trendiest neighborhood in Paris, for aperitifs at the Deux Magots and the Cafe de Flore, for shopping sprees at the most exclusive boutiques in Paris. And for a sex life free of prohibitions! Thus his adventures begin. Unfortunately for him, but to the delight of the reader, his story is filtered through a rather unsympathetic female narrator who refuses to show our hero the attention he feels he deserves.The results are amusing, bizarre, and increasingly delusional. This exhilarating novel about tradition and modernity, obligation and emancipation, speaks to what it means to live in a socity where cultures and ideologies often clash. With this portrait of a man balanced between two worlds---one in which he is both liberated and successful, the other in which he is conditioned by teligion, family, and a hilariously overbearing mother---Leila Marouane establishes herself as an original and talented chronicler of modern man's maladies and toboos. was born in Algeria in 1960 and has lived and worked in Paris since 1990. In addition to The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris, she is the author of four novels and one collection of short stories. In 2004, she was awarded the Frankfurt Book Fair's Liberatur Prize, and in 2006, the prestigious Prix Jean-Claude Izzo for her novel La jeune fille et la mere.From the American Academy of Pediatrics---the nation's most trusted name in child care---Your Baby's First Year is the definitive all-in-one guide to caring for your infant.Comprehensive, reassuring, and up-to-date, Your Baby's First Year is an indispensable guide for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their baby. Read Less