num_pages: 272
description: came out in 1954 and both in France and its authors native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist who shares the authors name Driss comes from a Moroccan family of means his father a self-made tea merchant the most devout of Muslims quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known simply as the Lord and Driss who is in high school is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities for whom as much as for his father he is no one. Driss Chrabis classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism Islam the subjection of women and finding as his novel does a voice that is as cutting and coruscating as it is original and free.
language: None
title: Le Passé Simple
publisher: Schoenhofs Foreign Books