The Sacred Night
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date of Publication 1 August 2000
- ISBN 9780801864414
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 211x189x11 mm
- Weight 240 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
The haunting continuation of The Sand Child, Ben Jelloun concludes Ahmed's, now Zahra's, journey.
Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt
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.
Impressive . . . Though [the story] suggests a number of allegorical interpretations, the surface of the narrative proceeds with enough sheer pleasure and lack of pretension to deeper meanings to ensure that these are rarely overt . . . Gender, sexuality, the cultures they impose, and the restrictions imposed on them by cultures, are a form of imprisonment; yet so, too, is the attempt to evade them.
?Times Literary Supplement More
