Description: This revised edition of pioneering Moroccan author Leila Abouzeid's novella and short stories--which has sold more than 13,000 copies in English--features a new introduction that traces the work's reception and impact over the twenty years since its first p
Brief description: LEILA ABOUZEID is a pioneer among Moroccan women writers. She studied at Mohammed V University in Rabat and at the University of Texas at Austin. She began her career as a radio and TV journalist and also worked as a press assistant in government ministries and in the prime minister’s office. In 1992 she left journalism to dedicate herself to writing. Abouzeid’s fiction has been translated from Arabic into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Maltese, French, Turkish, and Urdu.
Review Quotes: At a time when there is growing interest in the intersections between gender and war, Year of the Elephant provides an unself-conscious enterprise of self-affirmation.-- "World Literature Today"