![]() ![]() ![]() He wants to remain faithful to his nature both to remain faithful to his privileges and because with his head he feels like a man. But it will be the first menstrual cycle to show Ahmed the nature of him, lost with which he will have to live. The father will put pressure on this in order to bend the daughter’s nature to his will. In several parts of the book references are made to how this practice is ancient and rooted in the minds of Arabs since before Islam. A hidden storyīen Jelloun reveals the traits of a practice deliberately hidden from most but which tells a lot about Moroccan society. “The Sand Child” is the story of an invented identity, of a forced metamorphosis, of the disturbances, obsessions, violence and paradoxes that derive from it. ![]() She is born female, but at the behest of her father, who does not want to disperse her accumulated wealth, she will grow a male in spite of her body, and she will be recognized by all as the new head of the family. ![]() In an ageless country, which is also today’s Morocco, Mohamed Ahmed was born after seven sisters. The writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, like a snake trainer, will enchant us by telling us the story of Ahmed, born a woman but raised to be a man. Italiano A timeless classic that pays homage to Morocco and its stories. ![]()
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