Harvard Book Store and The French Library welcome Leila Slimani—bestselling and Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Perfect Nanny—for a discussion of her new novel, I’ll Take the Fire. She will be joined in conversation by Mylène Priam—scholar and writer who taught French and Francophone literature at Harvard University for more than a decade.
About I’ll Take the Fire
One of The New York Times’s “Novels Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026”.
From one of the boldest and most captivating voices in world literature, a sensual and provocative coming-of-age novel about a young Arab woman on a quest for sexual and political freedom.
Q: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?
A: I’d take the fire.
–Jean Cocteau
