![]() ![]() Which his brothers knew and had pointed out that they would end up with his money if he hadn’t given birth to a son. So he knew his money would pass through the family as the daughter in Islamic law at the time is only able to get a third of the estate from the Father. The book starts with Hajji telling of the fact that he had seven daughters to his wife and no matter what his next baby was going to be a Son no matter what happened. Hajji has had a run of daughter so when he has had seven that is enough he makes a plan for number 8 ![]() How often he remembered the story of the Arabs before the advent of Islan wo buried their daughter alive! Since he could not get tid of them, he treated them not with hate but indifference. The father thought that one daughter would have been enough. He was convinced that some distant, heavy curse weighed on his life out of seven births, he had seven daughters, the mother, aunt Ayshaa, and Malika, the old servan woman. He has written twenty or more novels and has won a number of big book prizes over the years including the Prix Goncourt. He is often mentioned as a future Nobel winner he has written in French although Arabic is his first language. The last book I reviewed from Morroco had a link to this writer as it was also set in the Tazamamart prison which featured also in Ben Jelloun’s best-known book This blinding absence of light. Well, I move to North Africa and an older modern classic from that country that has been sat on the shelves for a while to read. ![]()
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