Valse des silences

The book tells the story of Ahmed, a queer bourgeois Tunisian as he learns that he is HIV positive in the early nineties. Knowing that he is bound to die soon, Ahmed decides to not tell his family and move back to Paris, where his best friend, Amal, still lives and is herself struggling with finding her place in a city she still can’t call home. The book is an act of meditation on the shared burden of silence within a family,  on queer radical friendship and on migration.