Tripoli in the 1960s. A sweltering, segregated society. Hadachinou is a lonely boy. His mother shares secrets with her best friend, Jamila, while his father prays at the mosque. Sneaking through the sun drenched streets of Tripoli, the boy listens to the whispered stories of the women. He turns into an invisible witness to their repressed desires as he becomes aware of his own.
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Kamal Ben Hameda was born in Tripoli in 1954. In his early twenties he moved to France. He now lives in Holland, where he works as a Jazz musician and writer. Kamal has published several collections of poetry. In 2012 La Compagnie des Tripolitaines (Under the Tripoli Sky) was nominated for the Prix litteraire francophone de l'Alliance francaise, Prix du Livre les Orientales and Le Prix Ulysse.
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