TY  - BOOK
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.
AU  - Ben Jelloun, Tahar,
AU  - Coverdale, Linda.
CN  - PQ3989.2.J4
CN  - PQ3989.2.J4
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2011.
ID  - 349528
KW  - Moroccans
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Home
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Conflict of generations
LA  - eng
N1  - Originally published in French under the title: Au pays.
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.
PB  - Penguin Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2011.
SN  - 9780143118473 (pbk.)
SN  - 0143118471 (pbk.)
T1  - A palace in the old village :a novel /
TI  - A palace in the old village :a novel /
ER  -