The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman
Klappentext:Leila Abouzeid, author of Year of the Elephant, has translated her childhood memoir into English. Against the background of Morocco's struggle for independence from French colonial rule. Abouzeid charts her deeply personal journey through family conflicts ignited by the country's civil unrest. Return to Childhood represents a departure from the fiction for which Abouzeid is known, and is a rare work of autobiography in Arabic literature.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor: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. Leila Abouzeid's fiction has been translated from Arabic into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Maltese, French, Turkish, and Urdu.
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