The sand child
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alan Sheridan (Translator)
Determined to have a son after seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed names his eighth child Mohammed Ahmed, but as this child matures, she explores her true sexual identity as a woman named Zahra
Print Book, English, 1987
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1987
Islamic stories
vi, 165 pages ; 22 cm
9780151792870, 0151792879
15428839
"A Helen & Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of: L'enfant de sable