L'infant de sorra

Synopsis of L'infant de sorra

L'infant de sorra is a novel written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published in 1995. The story tells the life of Ahmed, the eighth child of a couple who, having no male heir, decides to raise him as if he were a man. As Ahmed discovers what is hidden from the eyes of others, he chooses to assume his father's rebellion against fate, to live as a man and marry a crippled woman, who soon becomes his accomplice in a dizzying descent into the inner hells and social lies.