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9780801864414

The Sacred Night

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801864414

  • ISBN10:

    0801864410

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-30
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1944 and has lived in France since 1971. An internationally recognized novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist, Ben Jelloun has received numerous awards for his works, including the Prix Maghreb, the Prix des Hemispheres and the Legion of Honor. His books include Solitaire, Silent Day in Tangier, With Downcast Eyes, Corruption, and Racism Explained to My Daughter. He is also a regular contributor to Le Monde. His novel The Sand Child is also available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preamble
1(4)
Inventory
5(12)
Night of Destiny
17(12)
A Beautiful Day
29(6)
The Perfumed Garden
35(10)
The Mirrors of Time
45(8)
A Dagger Caressing My Back
53(8)
The Seated Woman
61(8)
The Consul
69(12)
The Pact
81(12)
A Soul Defeated
93(6)
A Confusion of Feelings
99(6)
The Consul's Room
105(8)
A Lake of Heavy Water
113(8)
The Brothel Charade
121(10)
The Murder
131(4)
In the Darkness
135(8)
The Letter
143(4)
Ashes and Blood
147(6)
The Forgotten
153(10)
My Story, My Prison
163(6)
Hell
169(6)
The Saint
175

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