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A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.

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Hauntingly poetic and original. Times Literary Supplement Ben Jelloun, a writer of much originality, succeeds brilliantly in infusing his story with a melancholy that attaches itself not just to Ahmed but also to the Arab world. Chicago Tribune Mythic, symbolic, at times even highly poetic... At the center of this magical tale the question of gender (and the tangential problems of race and culture) predominates... The ending is absolutely startling. Washington Post Book World

The Sand Child

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    A Paperback / softback by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alan Sheridan

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 September 2000
      ISBN-13 9780801864407
      978-0801864407
      ISBN-10 0801864402

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.

      Trade Review
      Hauntingly poetic and original. Times Literary Supplement Ben Jelloun, a writer of much originality, succeeds brilliantly in infusing his story with a melancholy that attaches itself not just to Ahmed but also to the Arab world. Chicago Tribune Mythic, symbolic, at times even highly poetic... At the center of this magical tale the question of gender (and the tangential problems of race and culture) predominates... The ending is absolutely startling. Washington Post Book World

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