About My Mother

by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Book Overview

"Morocco's greatest living author."--The Guardian UK

"A writer of social and moral acuteness."--Los Angeles Times

"A writer of much originality."--The Chicago Tribune

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846592011
• ISBN13: 9781846592010
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Telegram Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"