The Sacred Night |
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Author:
| Ben Jelloun, Tahar |
Translator:
| Sheridan, Alan |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6441-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2000 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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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. In a narrative that shifts in and out of reality moving between a mysterious present and ......
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. In a narrative that shifts in and out of reality moving between a mysterious present and ......