A Tunisian Tale

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 her interrupted life from beyond the grave, A Tunisian Tale introduces the narrative talents of Hassouna Mosbahi to an English language audience for the first time, as he confronts both taboos of Tunisian society and the boundaries of conventional storytelling. Best Read A Tunisian Tale Author Hassouna Mosbahi For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr While cul de sac book groups prepare to ease themselves into the sun lounger world of Richard Judy s latest Summer Reads, Egypt still teeters and Syria descends deeper into an all together deeper kind of hell.This is not intended to send thousands of happy reading housewives hurtling off on an Arab inspired guilt trip, rather as a straight forward fact that for the majority, fiction represents a c...Set on the eve of the Iraq War, A Tunisian Tale reveals a westernized elite that coexists with those in rural villages and urban slums whose inherited systems often stunt lives, ultimately breeding violence..._ _ _ _ __ Arab immitation of Camus The Stranger with typical Arab obsession with female sexuality as it relates to honor thrown in.

• English
• 08 January 2017
Hassouna Mosbahi
• Hardcover
• 142 pages
• 9774164806
• Hassouna Mosbahi
• A Tunisian Tale