TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 43287602
LA - English T1 - The sand child A1 - Ben Jelloun, Tahar,,
Sheridan, Alan., PB - Johns Hopkins University Press CY -
Baltimore Y1 - 2000/// SN - 0801864402 9780801864407 AB - In
this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben
Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of
contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child
tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the
consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female
offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed
determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly,
the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a
young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in
traditional Arab-Islamic societies. As she matures, however,
Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her
sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to
explore her true sexual identity. Drawing on the rich A