Simple Past
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Publication
1920 - New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Language
English
Word Count
43,000 words, Guess
Page Count
172 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29437320M
- ISBN-139781681373607
- OCLC Control Number1097465011
- Library of Congress Control Number2019011258
Classifications
- LCCPQ3989.C5P313 2019
Description
"The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author's native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, also known as Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant, the most devout of Muslims, quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically, continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known, simply, as the Lord, and Driss, who is in high school, is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities, for whom, as much as for his father, he is no one. Driss Chrai bi's classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism, Islam, the subjection of women, and trying against the odds to find a voice of your own, to fight free"--
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