by Najat El Hachmi · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429776447
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«Mare de llet i mel» is the novel by Najat El Hachmi, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover (400 pages, in Catalan).
Fatima, a Muslim woman from the Rif, leaves behind her family and the village where she was born to emigrate alone to Catalonia with her daughter. In the first person, the novel portrays the effort to get ahead in a new world and, at the same time, offers a vision of what it means to be a woman in the rural Muslim sphere, with immigration as a central experience.
The work is part of the El Balancí collection from Edicions 62. It was published on January 31, 2018.
Suitable for readers interested in contemporary narrative in Catalan and in stories about immigration and female identity.
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.
