The Last Patriarch - Brossura

El Hachmi, Najat

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846687179 ISBN 13: 9781846687174

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 2010

Riassunto

An explosive novel which pits fathers against daughters and duty against desire.

Straight talking and fiery, Mimoun's daughter is everything he wishes she weren't. When he leaves Morocco for Catalonia, he wants to improve his own life without allowing Western culture to affect his wife or children at all. He expects them to stay in Morocco, while he enjoys the sophistication and freedom of Barcelona.

His plans are thrown into disarray when his family insists on joining him in Catalonia. Things get much worse when his daughter starts reading the dictionary, and taking on the Catalonians at their own language...

The Last Patriarch, a bestseller when published in 2008, was awarded the most prestigious Catalan literary prize, the Ramon Llull. It has been translated into all the major European languages and also won the Prix Ulysse, France.

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Recensione:

"An exciting fictional take on politics and the family" - Sunday Telegraph

"Najat El Hachmi's narrative poise, humour and fresh, unrepressed language turn her painful subject matter into a pleasure to read" - Independent

"A lively depiction of family life in Morocco and Catalonia" - Stylist

Descrizione del libro:

A riveting debut novel of fathers and daughters, and the conflict between duty and desire, set in rural Morocco and urban Cataluña

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Serpents Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846687179
• ISBN 13: 9781846687174
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310