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The Sacred Night by Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-; Sheridan, Alan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Sacred Night about?

The haunting continuation of The Sand Child , Ben Jelloun concludes Ahmed's, now Zahra's, journey. Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child. Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to circumvent Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, remains deeply conflicted about her identity. In a narrative that shifts in and out of reality moving between a mysterious present and a painful past, Ben Jelloun relates the events of Ahmed's adult life. Now calling herself Zahra, she renounces her role as only son and heir after her father's death and journeys through a dreamlike Moroccan landscape. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, The Sacred Night uses Arabic fairy tales and surrealist elements to craft a stunning and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality.

Who reads The Sacred Night?

Author

Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-; Sheridan, Alan

Publisher

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801864414

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.59 / 5 (325 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14