"I just finished reading a novel that I think is a little gem: The staple (The agrafe), by Maryline Desbiolles," says Najat El Hachmi, amazed by the prose of the French writer born in Ugine in 1959 and author of novels such as Anchise, Femina Prize winner in 1999. "It is subtle and written with a very natural lyricism," adds El Hachmi about The staple, a book published in 2024 in France, where it won the Le Monde prize. Desboilles tells the story of Emma Fulconis, a teenager from Nice who is bitten by a dog and insulted by the owner, who tells her that his dog doesn't like Arabs.