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A Palace in the Old Village

novel by Ben Jelloun

Also known as: “Au pays”

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Au pays (2009; A Palace in the Old Village) explores Muslim identity through the struggles of a Moroccan French retiree who returns to his homeland and begins building an enormous house in an effort to entice his family to join him. The unconventionally structured Le Bonheur conjugal (2012;…
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