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Palace in the Old Village

Palace in the Old Village

Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun

Location(s): Morocco

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

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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