The Honor Of The Tribe
Language: English
Published by WILLIAM MORROW, N.Y., 1992
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- Title
- The Honor Of The Tribe
- Author
- MIMOUNI, RACHID
- Publisher
- WILLIAM MORROW, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 1992
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0688097464
- ISBN 13
- 9780688097462
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition, First printing.
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The pious, minuscule, barely noticeable Algerian village of Zitouna, home to not much more than groves of eucalyptus and histories of one group subjugating another (first local bandits named the Roumis, then the French colonizers), finds its existence threatened when one of its own black sheep--a bureaucrat with a shady past, Omar el Mabrouk--is reassigned by the central government in Algiers to become a provincial prefect. Out of spite and megalomania, he decides to make Zitouna the provincial seat--a modernization that first involves ripping out most of the eucalyptus (foreign contractors do this work; the villagers first think they are dwarves, so elfin are they against the scale of their enormous earth-moving machinery) and installing instead all the soulless buildings, the licentiousness, and the cynicism that the village up until then has avoided. Mimouni, an Algiers-based novelist, has a light touch and a taste for the comic grotesque--the foulmouthed and vengeful el Mabrouk is an entertaining cartoon--but beneath the folk-tale style lies a good taste of what the traditionalists and fundamentalists are making so successful a fuss over in Algeria at the moment. Intriguing. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
This is a morality tale about the death and ultimate rebirth of an ancient civilization. Told from the viewpoint of an old man, it concerns a remote village in Algeria rocked by the efforts of "civilized" Westerners to modernize it. In this new world, people cast as social lepers ally themselves with the powerful and make lepers of others even weaker than themselves. Eventually, some villagers even trade their silver-embroidered saddles and handmade weapons for state-of-the-art percolators and "apparatuses that make you laugh and cry" (televisions). Hope arrives, however, in the unlikely form of a young magistrate--the son of the most powerful villager--who has become Westernized and joins gleefully in the corruption of his native land. By teaching the villagers that "victory belongs to the more resolute and not the more powerful," he offers them a guidepost to the future. Readers of this affecting story will readily empathize with the villagers' quest to maintain their way of life and will question the current emphasis on technology as a panacea for all social ills. For literary collections.
- Peggy Partello, Keene State Coll., N.H.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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