The sand child
By: Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated by Alan Sheridan.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1987
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 165
Description: Determined to have a son after seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed names his eighth child Mohammed Ahmed, but as this child matures, she explores her true sexual identity as a woman named Zahra.
Notes: Translation of: L'enfant de sable.
"A Helen & Kurt Wolff book."