The Sand Child

Name: The Sand Child
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun

by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Story of Ahmed, a Moroccan child bound by cultural deception

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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan-French author and Prix Goncourt winner known for The Sacred Night and The Sand Child, novels that explore gender, identity, and cultural hybridity in the Maghreb. His fiction challenges patriarchal Arab traditions.

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