by Tahar Ben Jelloun · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020126434
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«Les Yeux baissés» is the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Seuil in paperback (297 pages, in French).
The narrator grows up in a Berber village in southern Morocco while waiting for her father, who emigrated to France. After a tragedy, the family settles in Paris, in the Goutte d'Or district, where the girl becomes a teenager between two cultures. With a family secret linked to a hidden treasure, her story speaks of exile, uprootedness, fate and the condition of women.
Originally published in 1991, it is part of Seuil's Cadre rouge collection.
For readers of contemporary literature interested in exile, identity and Maghrebi narrative.
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