Sand Child
«Hauntingly poetic and original. Times Literary Supplement Ben Jelloun, a writer of much originality, succeeds brilliantly in infusing his story with a melancholy that attaches itself not just to Ahmed but also to the Arab world. Chicago Tribune Mythic, symbolic, at times even highly poetic... At the center of this magical tale the question of gender (and the tangential problems of race and culture) predominates... The ending is absolutely startling. Washington Post Book World»
In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780801864407
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
«Hauntingly poetic and original. Times Literary Supplement Ben Jelloun, a writer of much originality, succeeds brilliantly in infusing his story with a melancholy that attaches itself not just to Ahmed but also to the Arab world. Chicago Tribune Mythic, symbolic, at times even highly poetic... At the center of this magical tale the question of gender (and the tangential problems of race and culture) predominates... The ending is absolutely startling. Washington Post Book World»
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