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Author Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1947-

Title The sand child / Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated by Alan Sheridan.

Publication Info. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1987.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials  FICTION BEN JELLOUN, TAHAR    Check Shelf
Edition First United States edition.
Description vi, 165 pages ; 22 cm
Language Translation of: L'enfant de sable.
Note "A Helen & Kurt Wolff book."
Form Also issued online.
Summary Determined to have a son after seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed names his eighth child Mohammed Ahmed, but as this child matures, she explores her true sexual identity as a woman named Zahra.
Subject Fathers and sons -- Morocco -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Morocco -- Fiction.
Gender identity -- Morocco -- Fiction.
Morocco -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Morocco. (OCoLC)fst01205592
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Sheridan, Alan, translator.
Added Title Enfant de sable. English
Other Form: Online version: Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944- Enfant de sable. English. Sand child. 1st U.S. ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1987 (OCoLC)572438143
ISBN 0151792879 (hbk.)
9780151792870 (hbk.)
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