About My Mother
A Novel
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Publication
2016 - Telegram Books
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveaboutmymother0000benj
- ISBN-139781846592010
- ISBN-101846592011
- OCLC Control Number923553694
- Better World Books9781846592010
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28813544M
Classifications
- LCCPQ3989.2.J4
- LCCPQ3989.2.J4 S8713 2016
Description
Lalla Fatma believes she is in Fez in 1944 - where she grew up - not in Tangier in 2000, where the story begins. Guided by her fragmented memories, Ben Jelloun reimagines his mother's life in Fez at the end of the war, in the heavily ritualised world of custom and tradition that saw her married, pregnant, and widowed by sixteen. He gains privileged, painful access to her lives as daughter, sister, thrice-widowed wife - lives in which she had little say, mostly spent working in kitchens, marked by a deep religious faith and love for her family - as Alzheimer's rips them all away.
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