A Tunisian tale
After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and commits an unspeakable crime. An imaginative and disturbing novel told from alternating viewpoints.
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- Full title :A Tunisian tale / Hassouna Mosbahi ; translated by Max Weiss.
Summary
After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and commits an unspeakable crime. An imaginative and disturbing novel told from alternating viewpoints.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):American University in Cairo Press
- Place of Publication:Cairo
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:142 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789774164804, 9774164806
- oclc:ocn730413864
- LC Classification:PJ7846.I6974
- Dewey Decimal:892.73
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