A Tunisian tale

Mosbahi, Hassouna. (Author). Weiss, Max (Max David) (Added Author).

Summary: After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and commits an unspeakable crime. An imaginative and disturbing novel told from the alternating viewpoints of this unrepentant sociopath, as he sits and fumes on death row but willingly guides us through his juvenile exploits and twisted memories, and his murdered mother, who calmly gives an account of.

Record details

ISBN: 9781617974632
ISBN: 9781617971723
ISBN: 9781306492560
ISBN: 1617974633
ISBN: 1617971723
ISBN: 1306492564
Physical Description: 1 online resource (142 pages)
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Publisher: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Tunisian novel." Multi-User. CatMonthString:june.23
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Language Note:	Translated from the Arabic.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.