A palace in the old village
By: Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781906413750
Subjects: Immigrants; Fiction; Family relationships; Muslims; Parent and adult child; Intergenerational relations; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come be with him.