International Book Group – The Sand Child

Name: International Book Group – The Sand Child
Start: 2025-12-03T15:45:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-03T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 575 W Falmouth Hwy, West Falmouth, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02540

Wed Dec 03 2025 at 03:45 pm to 05:00 pm UTC-05:00

575 W Falmouth Hwy, West Falmouth, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02540 | Falmouth

Publisher/HostWest Falmouth Library

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$International Book Group \u2013 The Sand Child$

The International Book Group at West Falmouth Library is a volunteer-led group that meets on the first Wednesday of each month 3:45-5pm. Selections have either foreign settings or foreign authors, usually both. New members are always welcome! Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes; register online. Meetings are both in-person and on Zoom.
Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun tells a story of power, colonialism, gender, and sexual identity in North Africa.
Praise for The Sand Child: Ben Jelloun, a writer of much originality, succeeds brilliantly in infusing his story with a melancholy that attaches itself not just to Ahmed but also to the Arab world.―Chicago Tribune
Mythic, symbolic, at times even highly poetic . . . At the center of this magical tale the question of gender (and the tangential problems of race and culture) predominates . . . The ending is absolutely startling.―Washington Post Book World