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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade ReviewImpressive... 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 Haunting, often hallucinogenic. Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality. Chicago Tribune
Table of ContentsPreamble
Chapter 1. Inventory
Chapter 2. Night of Destiny
Chapter 3. A Beautiful Day
Chapter 4. The Perfumed Garden
Chapter 5. The Mirrors of Time
Chapter 6. A Dagger Caressing My Back
Chapter 7. The Seated Woman
Chapter 8. The Consul
Chapter 9. The Pact
Chapter 10. A Soul Defeated
Chapter 11. A Confusion of Feelings
Chapter 12. The Consul's Room
Chapter 13. A Lake of Heavy Water
Chapter 14. The Brothel Charade
Chapter 15. The Murder
Chapter 16. In The Darkness
Chapter 17. The Letter
Chapter 18. Ashes and Blood
Chapter 19. The Forgotten
Chapter 20. My Story, My Prison
Chapter 21. Hell
Chapter 22. The Saint
