Jamal Ouariachi - Étvágy
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Four servings, minimum. That's what he's thinking as he scoops the rice out of the footer over the trash can. Sticky, overcooked eyes. Now that he is looking at it with smitten hunger: like a family of maggots. Still, a spark of happiness burns in his chest. Luxury lies not in what is necessary, but in what is unnecessary. The dull gong of a wooden spoon scooping out the leftovers from the leg. No, it's something else. Indifference of movements. Throwing away food: good. Think of The Starving Little Children! - No, he's not thinking about The Hungry Little Children for a moment. Nothing to do with The Hungry Little Kids. Aurélie feels responsible for the only small child who is now sleeping upstairs." Excerpt from the novel Aurélie is happily living the hectic life of a television reporter raising a child, when suddenly everything around her turns upside down. She receives a phone call from her old love, Alexander, a former icon of the aid organization world, with whom her relationship then ended when the man was unexpectedly shut down ten years before. Aurélie is unable to resist the temptation to find out what really happened, so she begins to write a volume of reports about the man. During the work process, the unusual relationship between these two people is revealed to us, and we ourselves are affected by it. we avoid Alexander, who is both attractive and repulsive, experiencing firsthand the psychology of narcissistic boundary violation.The volume won the European Union Literature Prize in 2017.