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A Palace in the Old Village
A Palace in the Old Village | Tahar Ben Jelloun
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From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. Mohammed has spent the past 40 years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life - his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children - and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come and be with him.
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A delightful read by well-known Moroccan author nominated to the Nobel prize for literature: the drama of a simple man who spends all of his adult life coping with the hardship of immigration and lack of belonging. Unable to understand that conflicting life views with the younger generations are inevitable, he dies in solitude in his village of origin, far from his children, instead of enjoying his early pension years and life savings

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