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The last patriarch

The Last Patriarch is narrated by the daughter of Mimoun Driouch - the patriarch of the title - from his birth to her entrance into university. Mimoun believes that life on his parents' land is not his destiny"" and so we follow his journey from rural Morocco to urban Cataluña. Mimoun's own violent nature and paranoia leads to frustration and rage, which he duly takes out on his wife and children. ""This was not his destiny - this phrase is repeated almost like a mantra for Mimoun, who truly believes he is meant for great things. However, as the years pass, it begins to sound hollow; he does.

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  • "The Last Patriarch is narrated by the daughter of Mimoun Driouch - the patriarch of the title - from his birth to her entrance into university. Mimoun believes that life on his parents' land is not his destiny"" and so we follow his journey from rural Morocco to urban Cataluña. Mimoun's own violent nature and paranoia leads to frustration and rage, which he duly takes out on his wife and children. ""This was not his destiny - this phrase is repeated almost like a mantra for Mimoun, who truly believes he is meant for great things. However, as the years pass, it begins to sound hollow; he does."@en
  • ""Straight-talking and fiery, Mimoun's daughter is everything he wishes she weren't. When he leaves Morocco for Catalonia, he wants to improve his own life without allowing Western culture to affect his wife or children at all. He expects them to stay in Morocco, while he enjoys the sophistication and freedom of Barcelona. His plans are thrown into disarray when his family insists on joining him in Catalonia. Things get much worse when his daughter starts reading the dictionary, and taking on the Catalans in their own language ..."--Page 4 of cover."

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  • "Roman familial"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Novel·la catalana"@ca
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman catalan"

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  • "El Último patriarca"
  • "The Last patriarch"
  • "Der letzte Patriarch"
  • "El último patriarca"
  • "El último patriarca"@es
  • "L'Últim patriarca"@ca
  • "Le dernier patriarche roman"
  • "L' últim patriarca"
  • "Le dernier patriarche : roman"
  • "L'ultim patriarca"
  • "The last patriarch"@en
  • "The last patriarch"
  • "L'últim patriarca"
  • "Aile reisinin kati devrilişi : Roman"@tr
  • "Le demier patriarche"
  • "The Last Patriarch"@en

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