قنديل باب المدينة

The novel moves between a building on Nahj al-Murr in the old medina of Tunis, home to Souad, Safia, Othman and Ammar, a complex, contradictory man, and the Hout family in the Lafayette district. Daily life and popular tradition fill its pages, set in the years after independence, when socialism and then economic opening took hold of Tunisian society. Souad stands for the wish for personal freedom against the weight of custom.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

260 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia

First published

1999 by al-Sharika al-Tunisiyya lil-Nashr wa-Tanmiyat Funun al-Rasm

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9789973314673 (original)