1. Target
  2. Movies, Music & Books
  3. Books
  4. Non-Fiction

Dreams of Trespass - by Fatima Mernissi (Paperback)

Dreams of Trespass - by  Fatima Mernissi (Paperback)
Store: Target
Last Price: 12.99 USD

Similar Products

Products of same category from the store

All

Product info

<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>" I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco... So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi""<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This wonderful and enchanting memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>).</b> <p/> I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco . . . </i><br>So begins Fatima Mernissi in this illuminating narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In <i>Dreams of Trespass</i>, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth -- women who, without access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. <p/> A beautifully written account of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex, <i>Dreams of Trespass</i> illuminates what it was like to be a modern Muslim woman in a place steeped in tradition.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Mernissi] creates a necklace of tales as delightful as Scheherazade's.--<i><b>Elle</b></i><br><br>A remarkable book...vits good humor is unwavering; it tempers judgmentalism with understanding; and it provides a vivid portrait of a world that most Westerners can scarcely comprehend.--<i><b>Washington Post Book World</b></i><br><br>Wonderful and enchanting.... Mernissi brings this vanished world to life.--<i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Fatema Mernissi</b> teaches sociology at University Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. She is the author of more than eight books, including <i>Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Scheherazade Goes West, The Veil and the Male Elite</i>, and <i>Beyond the Veil</i>.

Price History