Con los ojos bajos

Synopsis of Con los ojos bajos

«Con los ojos bajos» is the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun published in 1992 by Edicions 62 in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).

«Con los ojos bajos» follows a female narrator who moves between North Africa and France and tells of the uprootedness of emigration and the clash between two cultures. The narrative interweaves the protagonist's learning and maturation with the condition of women in Islamic countries and with the weight of fate.

This edition is part of the Península Narrativa collection (no. 43). The work was originally published in French as «Les Yeux baissés».

For readers of contemporary fiction interested in emigration, exile, and the construction of identity.