NOMINATED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERS STARRED REVIEWS IN  KIRKUS ,  BOOKLIST  AND  QUILL & QUIRE A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eyes of his mother and his sister, he starts to do just that – until Ali enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men, from very different worlds, embark on an unsayable relationship that threatens to tear apart Tarek’s family. Years later, as Tarek is living a solitary life in Montreal, someone starts writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will he figure it out in time? A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycéens,  What I Know About Yo u is poised to be an international sensation. "This novel is a searing love story that moves between Egypt and Montréal, that shifts between hearts, highlighting the sacrifices the characters feel they have to make for the ones they love. Romantic, surprising, mesmerizing, and so devastating,  What I Know About You  examines the terrible costs of family secrets and toxic shame."  – Suzette Mayr, author of  The Sleeping Car Porter Nominated for the 2026 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award One of the Globe & Mail's Best Books of 2024 "Chacour’s What I Know About You issues the powerful reminder that even what we cannot see—and what we can barely imagine—can either stop or start a heart beating." ​– Marcie McCauley, The Temz Review "A splendid exercise in melancholy and heartbreak with highly empathetic characters, Chacour’s first novel is beautifully written and superbly translated from the French by Pablo Strauss. It is not to be missed." – Michael Cart Booklist  ★ STARRED Review "The slow-burn story of Tarek, a Levantine Christian doctor whose life seems prescribed for him in every matter, even love...Chacour’s exceptional restraint in divulging information lets the tension build, carrying the book into the revelation of who is writing Tarek’s story. All the author’s formal risks result in well-earned rewards." – Kirkus , ★ STARRED Review " What I Know About You  is a cerebral yet emotionally resonant slow burn with an intriguing structure that serves Chacour’s plot extremely well. In any language, this is a devastatingly beautiful story."  – Dory Cerny,  Quill & Quire , ★ STARRED Review “ What I Know About You  announces Chacour as a storyteller of rare ability: deeply emotional in his substance, elegant and restrained in his style. Chacour is a master of perspective and careful revelation. In his hands, this story about taboo love and a family’s legacy overflows with crushing beauty as it grips readers in its world.  What I Know About You  is cruel and tender, surprising and inexorable, delicate and overwhelming, necessary and timeless. It is a story that is unlikely to be forgotten.” – 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize jury “One man’s love for another breaches the norms of gender, society and class in the otherwise modernizing, secular Egypt of Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. Tarek, a doctor, nurtures a love that comes to him unexpectedly, and that neither his country nor his family is able to accept. Elegantly told and profoundly affecting, What I Know About You speaks to the inherited moral structures constraining us, and to the alienation of a man’s inner life rendered external. Tarek leaves Cairo and his marriage for Montreal, a cold and foreign city in which his otherness is of a more ordinary kind, but when circumstances finally permit, he returns to confront the past and its consequences nebulously in pursuit of him. Here is a quiet, touching story in which the acts of yearning, stymied hearts transcend their troubled genesis and move their hosts towards the possibility of redemption that is love’s essence.” – 2024 Giller Prize Jury Citation "Inspired by the mot juste of classical French literature and the rhythm of English prose, Chacour’s writing shows a clear poetic sensibility and an admirable formal restraint." – Alexandra Sweny, Montreal Review of Books "Like  Atonement  or  The English Patient , the slow-burn romantic epic of love, family secrets and sacrifice moves across decades when, years later, the past rears its head in Montreal, at the turn of the century." – Nathalie Atkinson, Zoomer Book Club "At its core,  What I Know About You is a profoundly human story – a tale of love, loss, and the enduring human spirit. Every emotion is earned and resonates deeply, a testament to Chacou