TY  - BOOK
N2  - Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life, his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children, and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come be with him. A heartbreaking novel about parents and children, A Palace in the Old Village captures the sometimes stark contrasts between old and new-world values, and an immigrant's abiding pursuit of home.--From back cover.
AB  - Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life, his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children, and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come be with him. A heartbreaking novel about parents and children, A Palace in the Old Village captures the sometimes stark contrasts between old and new-world values, and an immigrant's abiding pursuit of home.--From back cover.
T1  - A palace in the old village :a novel /
DA  - 2011.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Ben Jelloun, Tahar,
AU  - Coverdale, Linda.
CN  - PQ3989.2.J4
CN  - PQ3989.2.J4
PB  - Penguin Books,
PP  - New York :
LA  - eng
PY  - 2011.
N1  - Originally published in French under the title: Au pays.
ID  - 349528
KW  - Moroccans
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Home
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Conflict of generations
SN  - 9780143118473 (pbk.)
SN  - 0143118471 (pbk.)
TI  - A palace in the old village :a novel /
ER  -