- Fiction, Sex (Psychology), Social life and customs, Patriarchy in fiction
Determined to have a son after seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed names his eighth child Mohammed Ahmed, but as this child matures, she explores her true sexual identity as a woman named Zahra.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Quartet, Johns Hopkins University Press, Einaudi
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- French, English, German, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780801864407
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Tahar Ben Jelloun (en arabe : الطاهر بن جلون) est un écrivain, poète et peintre franco-marocain né le 1er décembre 1944 à Fès (Maroc). Auteur de nouvelles, romans, poèmes et essais, il est lauréat du prix Goncourt pour son roman *La Nuit sacrée.* Bien que sa langue maternelle soit l'arabe, il écrit en français. En 2004, il a reçu le prix littéraire international IMPAC Dublin pour *Cette aveuglante absence de lumière.* En 2008, il a été décoré de la Croix de Grand Officier de la Légion d'honneur. ---------- Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fes, Morocco. He studied Philosophy in Rabat. In 1971, he moved to France, where he studied Psychology. He has been a professor, and he is currently a psychot
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