by Driss Chraïbi · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020374330
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«Une enquête au pays» is the novel by Driss Chraïbi, published by Points in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Two police officers try to solve an investigation in a remote village in the High Atlas and clash with the harshness of the landscape and its inhabitants. The novel portrays with irony the Morocco after decolonization, the chieftainship that brutalizes the people, and the risks of Western progress for Arab-Berber society.
The novel originally appeared in 1981; this French edition was published in June 1999 in the Points collection.
For readers of Moroccan fiction in French who appreciate social criticism and humor.
Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical.
