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Management number 231866130 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price US$15.99 Model Number 231866130
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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 a painful past, Ben Jelloun relates the events of Ahmed's adult life. Now calling herself Zahra, she renounces her role as only son and heir after her father's death and journeys through a dreamlike Moroccan landscape. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, The Sacred Night uses Arabic fairy tales and surrealist elements to craft a stunning and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality. Read more

ISBN10 0704327279
ISBN13 978-0704327276
Edition First Edition
Language English
Publisher Quartet Books
Item Weight 12.3 ounces
Print length 178 pages
Publication date January 1, 1989

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