by Najat El Hachmi · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408082675
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«El último patriarca» is the contemporary novel by Najat El Hachmi, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (384 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator, daughter of Mimoun, reconstructs the history of the Driouch family from its roots in Morocco, where women live subjected to the patriarchal order, to their settlement in the Iberian Peninsula and the clash with Western customs. While observing her father's authoritarian drift, the unnamed protagonist embarks on her own path towards freedom.
It belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection (no. 1). It received the Ramon Llull Prize 2008 and the Prix Ulysse.
For fiction readers interested in stories of migration, identity and female emancipation.
Najat El Hachmi is a Moroccan-Spanish writer based in Catalonia. She holds a degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Barcelona. She is the author of a personal essay on her bicultural identity, and three previous novels, the first of which earned her the 2008 Ramon Llull Prize, the 2009 Prix Ulysse, and was a finalist for the 2009 Prix Méditerranée Étranger.
