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The Sand Child
Tahar Ben Jelloun
1985
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A girl is raised as a boy in patriarchal Morocco.
Why this book matters
The world's best-known Moroccan writer, working in French. He won the Prix Goncourt for The Sacred Night (1987), the sequel to this parable of gender and freedom.
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