In the book, Benali returns to his roots and to the literature that he discovered as a 20 year old.
The literature shapes his life and attempts to answer the question of what it is like to be a first or second generation child of an immigrant.
”I was a bid that tried to fly to heaven and lay an egg there”, said the protagonist of the novel ”Voice of my Mother”, a successful young photographer.
Benali was born in Morocco in 1975, but he came to the Netherlands with his parents when he was 4 years old. He writes novels, stories, poetry, travel writing and theater plays, as well as literary reviews and is a regular colunist in the biggest Dutch daily newspaper Die Volkskrant.
His books have been translated in 10 global languages, announced Buybook.