Year of the Elephant, 9780292721722
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Zahra has just returned to her hometown after being divorced by her husband for being too traditional and unable to keep up with his modern way of life. Having devoted herself to the creation of independent Morocco, she had expected to share the fruits of independence with him, but instead she finds…
  • Paperback

    125 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2009

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780292721722
ISBN-10:0292721722
Series:CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
Author:Leila Abouzeid, Barbara McKean Parmenter, Barbara Harlow
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Imprint:University of Texas Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:125
Edition:2nd
Release Date:1 September 2009
Weight:286g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

At a time when there is growing interest in the intersections between gender and war, Year of the Elephant provides an unself-conscious enterprise of self-affirmation.

At a time when there is growing interest in the intersections between gender and war, Year of the Elephant provides an unself-conscious enterprise of self-affirmation. (World Literature Today)

About The Author

Leila Abouzeid

Leila Abouzeid is a pioneer among Moroccan women writers. She studied at Mohammed V University in Rabat and at the University of Texas at Austin. She began her career as a radio and TV journalist and also worked as a press assistant in government ministries and in the prime minister’s office. In 1992 she left journalism to dedicate herself to writing. Abouzeid’s fiction has been translated from Arabic into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Maltese, French, Turkish, and Urdu.

Barbara Parmenter is a lecturer in the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

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