A vast world in ten minutes • Diane Mazloum

In Diane Mazloum's three novels to date, Lebanon, the country of her childhood, looms large, as it does in her memories imbued with sensuality, love, and a fascination for everything Paris never gave her. In her latest novel, Une piscine dans le désert, Mazloum paints a landscape in the middle of nowhere, on Lebanese soil close to Syria and Israel where the longing to create life is a transgressive force in a world beset by dangers. Her other two novels are Beyrouth, la nuit and L'Âge d'or.