Sacred Night

Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801864414
Publisert
2000-09-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Oversetter
Sheridan, Alan

Biographical note

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.

Sacred Night

Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Heftet / 2000 / Engelsk
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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 Haunting, often hallucinogenic. Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality. Chicago Tribune

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.
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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.
Les mer
PreambleChapter 1. InventoryChapter 2. Night of DestinyChapter 3. A Beautiful DayChapter 4. The Perfumed GardenChapter 5. The Mirrors of TimeChapter 6. A Dagger Caressing My BackChapter 7. The Seated WomanChapter 8. The ConsulChapter 9. The PactChapter 10. A Soul DefeatedChapter 11. A Confusion of FeelingsChapter 12. The Consul's RoomChapter 13. A Lake of Heavy WaterChapter 14. The Brothel CharadeChapter 15. The MurderChapter 16. In The DarknessChapter 17. The LetterChapter 18. Ashes and BloodChapter 19. The ForgottenChapter 20. My Story, My PrisonChapter 21. HellChapter 22. The Saint
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Modern Fiction that recalls Rushdie and Grass

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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 Haunting, often hallucinogenic. Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality. Chicago Tribune

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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
PreambleChapter 1. InventoryChapter 2. Night of DestinyChapter 3. A Beautiful DayChapter 4. The Perfumed GardenChapter 5. The Mirrors of TimeChapter 6. A Dagger Caressing My BackChapter 7. The Seated WomanChapter 8. The ConsulChapter 9. The PactChapter 10. A Soul DefeatedChapter 11. A Confusion of FeelingsChapter 12. The Consul's RoomChapter 13. A Lake of Heavy WaterChapter 14. The Brothel CharadeChapter 15. The MurderChapter 16. In The DarknessChapter 17. The LetterChapter 18. Ashes and BloodChapter 19. The ForgottenChapter 20. My Story, My PrisonChapter 21. HellChapter 22. The Saint
Les mer
Modern Fiction that recalls Rushdie and Grass

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801864414
Publisert
2000-09-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Johns Hopkins University Press
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Oversetter
Sheridan, Alan

Biographical note

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.

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