L'enfant de sable

Synopsis of L'enfant de sable

«L'enfant de sable» is the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Editions Du Seuil in paperback (179 pages, in French).

In a square in Marrakech, a narrator tells the story of Ahmed, the eighth daughter of a family without a male heir, raised as a boy. As she grows up, Ahmed assumes that identity, marries a woman, and the two become accomplices in a life marked by lies. The novel addresses identity, gender, and tradition in Morocco.

The work was first published in 1985 and is classified within contemporary fiction and African literature.

For readers interested in Maghrebi literature and stories that explore identity and gender.