Jeux de rubans

Frida, a divorced university academic, lives a calm life in Tunisia between her very old mother Zubayda, her only son Tofayl and her partner Zaydun. Her mother threw off the veil long ago, and Frida has always rejected the old Tunisia of forced marriages, polygamy and hidden bodies. Then she comes upon Tofayl with Chokrane, a young woman in a veil, and the encounter shakes her ideals and what she believed she had passed on to him. Anger, guilt and remorse follow, and the question of why, in a modern country, more and more young women are covering themselves again. The story moves between several voices: Frida, Zaydun, Tofayl and Zubayda, whose memory is fading.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

210 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia

First published

2011 by Elyzad

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789973580412 (original)