Sacred Night
«Impressive... Though [the story] suggests a number of allegorical interpretations, the surface of the narrative proceeds with enough sheer pleasure and lack of pretension to deeper meanings to ensure that these are rarely overt... Gender, sexuality, the cultures they impose, and the restrictions imposed on them by cultures, are a form of imprisonment; yet so, too, is the attempt to evade them. Times Literary Supplement Haunting, often hallucinogenic. Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality. Chicago Tribune»
The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child. Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to circumvent Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, remains deeply conflicted about her identity. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780801864414
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Prix Goncourt 1987 France.
Anmeldelser
«Impressive... Though [the story] suggests a number of allegorical interpretations, the surface of the narrative proceeds with enough sheer pleasure and lack of pretension to deeper meanings to ensure that these are rarely overt... Gender, sexuality, the cultures they impose, and the restrictions imposed on them by cultures, are a form of imprisonment; yet so, too, is the attempt to evade them. Times Literary Supplement Haunting, often hallucinogenic. Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality. Chicago Tribune»