San Antonio College Library

This is the moving story of a Tunisian woman, Horia El-Gharib, and her struggle to maintain the integrity of her ancestral land during the French occupation and the government that followed colonial rule. The tale is narrated by her son in a mixture of styles: narrative (with long, descriptive chapters at the start), epistolary (as the drama unfolds), and staccato (extremely short chapters) as we near the tragic end. The skillful translation is faithful...