Title : The Sacred Night - Tahar Ben Jelloun - book

• Summary

Goncourt Prize 1987

“Remember! I was a child with a troubled and vacillating identity. I was a daughter masked by the will of a father who felt diminished, humiliated because he had not had a son. As you know, I was the son he dreamed of. The rest, some of you know; others have heard snatches here and there. Those who have ventured to tell the life of this child of sand and wind have had some trouble: some have been struck with amnesia; others have almost lost their souls. You have been told stories. They are not really mine. Even locked up and isolated, the news reached me. I was neither surprised nor troubled. I knew that by disappearing I was leaving behind me enough to fuel the most extravagant tales. But, as my life is not a tale, I wanted to re-establish the facts and deliver to you the secret kept under a black stone in a house with high walls at the end of an alley closed by seven doors.

Ahmed, "the sand child," has grown up. He (or she) has aged and is now speaking. In this In Sacred Night, Tahar Ben Jelloun perhaps provides the key to one of his most disturbing novels of recent years. The Sand Child had been critically acclaimed and read by tens of thousands of readers.

• EAN : 9782020097161
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