Title : The Night of Error - Tahar Ben Jelloun - Book

Summary :

A grim fate decreed that Zina, the heroine of this novel, was conceived during a cursed night, "a night of error" during which nothing was to be conceived. She was born on the day of her grandfather's death. Thus, what was supposed to be a celebration was a mourning. Struck by fate, cursed forever, she would become a child, then a marginalized woman, the one through whom misfortune befalls. Zina would make cruelty her way of being in the world and take revenge on the men captivated by her beauty. "Women are cruel," she would say, "because men are cowards." Zina would endeavor to seduce and then destroy her lovers. Three magical places, three Moroccan cities serve as the setting for this story: Fez in the 1940s, Tangier ten years later, and Chaouen today. Tahar Ben Jelloun brings together several storytellers to combine the themes that have always inhabited his work: the violence of relationships between men and women, freedom... "As if by chance," he writes, "it is in the disaster of the world that I find myself, in the suffering of the innocent that I recognize myself."

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