L'enfant de sable

Synopsis of L'enfant de sable

«L'Enfant de sable» is the novel by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Seuil in paperback (208 pages, in French).

The story is presented as a tale told in a Marrakech square: Ahmed, the eighth daughter of a couple without a male heir, is raised as a boy by her father's decision. Ahmed learns to live in that imposed identity, marries and keeps the secret, which gradually wraps her life in a web of fiction and silence.

Originally published on 30 January 1985, this paperback edition belongs to the Points collection.

For readers of contemporary fiction and Maghrebi literature in French.