{"product_id":"the-sand-child","title":"The Sand Child","description":"Hajji Ahmed has seven daughters and a constant worry; he has no legal heir. Determined to stop his greedy brothers from claiming his wealth, he decides that his eighth child will be a boy, no matter what. Thus, his final child, Mohammed Ahmed, is raised a boy with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional society. Yet, as he matures, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of his sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, she finally begins to explore her identity on her own terms.   In haunting, surrealist prose Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed\/Zahra's life through a storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square to hear his tale. A poetic vision of colonial legacy and gender politics in 1950s Morocco, The Sand Child is the masterwork of one of the greatest North African writers of the 20th century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499326185845,"sku":"9780241848203","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-sand-child","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}