by Najat El Hachmi · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788492549757
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«L'últim patriarca» is the contemporary novel by Najat El Hachmi, published by labutxaca in paperback (336 pages, in Catalan).
Novel that tells the story of Mimoun Driouch and his daughter, born to occupy the place patriarchy assigns them. The changes around them lead the daughter to question her father's despotic authority and to try to free herself from his influence, in a family tale full of misunderstandings and internal contradictions.
Work awarded the Premi Ramon Llull 2008 and the Prix Ulysse, and finalist for the Prix Méditerranée étranger 2009; it has been translated into ten languages.
Suitable for readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of family, identity, and critique of patriarchal structures.
Najat El Hachmi is a Moroccan-Spanish writer based in Catalonia. She holds a degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona. She is the author of a personal essay on her bicultural identity, and three previous novels, the first of which earned her the 2008 Ramon Llull Prize, the 2009 Prix Ulysse, and was a finalist for the 2009 Prix Méditerranée Étranger.
