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In L'Enfant de sable (The Sand Child, 1985), a Moroccan notable, humiliated at having fathered only daughters, resolves that his eighth child — a girl — will be declared and raised as a boy. Named Ahmed, the child grows up performing a masculinity imposed from birth, and the story of this deception is passed from mouth to mouth by storytellers in the square, each claiming to have read the truth in a secret journal.\n\nIn La Nuit sacrée (The Sacred Night, 1987), which won the Prix Goncourt, the child — now grown and freed by the father's death on the \"night of destiny\" — reclaims her identity as a woman named Zahra and sets out into a Morocco of walled gardens, holy men, prisons, and desire. What follows is a luminous, harrowing journey through love, cruelty, and self-invention as Zahra tries to become the person she was never permitted to be.\n\nWritten in incantatory, dreamlike prose steeped in Arab and Berber storytelling, Ben Jelloun's diptych is a landmark of Francophone literature — a haunting meditation on gender, identity, patriarchal tradition, and the freedom that can only be seized, never given.",1987,"fr","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kkc8354e11jmbztc35sm072q.jpg?v=7cc5186a5b","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks-3d\u002F01\u002F01kkc8354e11jmbztc35sm072q.png?v=8066dd88a9","L}K0cqWDs.j[~AazoLj[xtoeazj@",0,"pending",false,true,[19],{"id":20,"slug":21,"name":22,"role":23,"bio":24},"01kkc8356tw7kb3gxrv6b1ztny","tahar-ben-jelloun-gltk","Tahar Ben Jelloun","author","Tahar Ben Jelloun (en arabe : الطاهر بن جلون) est un écrivain, poète et peintre franco-marocain né le 1er décembre 1944 à Fès (Maroc). 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