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The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun tells a story of power, colonialism, gender, and sexual identity in North Africa. 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. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies. As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801864402
ISBN-13
9780801864407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1667320

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sand Child
Author
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Religious
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
176 Pages

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Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz

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Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pq3989.2.J4e613 2000
Reviews
""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."", "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, 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., 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.
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
00-021128
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Dewey Edition
21

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