| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Part I; 1 A long-awaited son; 2 Father's father; 3 Rival number one; 4 Mimoun is special; 5 Run, Mimoun, run!; 6 Keep still, Mimoun; 7 Fatma; 8 This isn't what you're destined to do; 9 The collapse of the natural order; 10 Someone to tame; 11 Whores in other people's houses; 12 A nice little love story; 13 I can only tame you if you're mine; 14 I'm off; 15 Tying the knot; 16 A suitcase with shiny locks; 17 The journey; 18 From now on you're Manel; 19 Whores aren't the same everywhere; 20 A religious precept; 21 Mimoun returns home |
|
22 This still isn't what you're destined to be23 The return of the firstborn; 24 The big night; 25 A proper wife; 26 The son's son; 27 I'll die without you; 28 Au revoir; 29 Welcome; 30 At home; 31 That's the last time you cheat on me; 32 Perpetual Nostalgia Syndrome; 33 Isabel; 34 The son's daughter; 35 Bees; 36 Abandon or leave altogether; 37 The family is a sepia portrait; 38 The call, or how destiny takes an unexpected turn; Part II; 1 A long, long passage; 2 The strange incident of the knife at midnight; 3 Where are you, Carol-Anne?; 4 A dictionary of the Catalan language; 5 Sugar-coated |
|
6 Streets, bars, parks and gardens7 Bottle of Butane; 8 Flying glasses and knives; 9 The show; 10 Ants; 11 The neighbour; 12 Yet another New Year; 13 Go away and don't ever come back; 14 Love God and He will love you; 15 A house in an alley, not on Mango Street; 16 A truce; 17 Nocilla, Super Mario and sex; 18 Próxim Supermarkets, the quick buy; 19 This isn't my world; 20 Two kisses; 21 A truck without a handbrake; 22 Summer camp, or don't stick your nose in where it's not wanted; 23 How they gradually incarcerate you; 24 Secondary school; 25 On desire; 26 The car door |
|
27 Friends: not from here or there28 A large, soft tongue; 29 Your sex isn't my sex; 30 Dates with milk; 31 A photo on the wall; 32 I sewed; 33 Alternative routes to liberation; 34 Doctors don't know about these things; 35 Exceptionally, life overrides honour; 36 The angels curse you or you're the one who throws them out; 37 No more meandering; 38 Sometimes there's not even love; 39 Revenge with a vengeance; Footnotes; prologue_fn; part01_fn1; part01_fn2; part01_fn3; part01_fn4; part01_fn5; part01_fn6; part02_fn1; part02_fn2; part02_fn3; part02_fn4; part03_fn1; part03_fn2; epilogue_fn |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Translated from the Catalan |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Patriarchy -- Fiction
|
|
Moroccans -- Spain -- Catalonia -- Fiction
|
|
Families -- Spain -- Catalonia -- Fiction
|
|
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
|
|
FICTION -- General.
|
|
Families
|
|
Identity (Psychology)
|
|
Moroccans
|
|
Patriarchy
|
|
Spain -- Catalonia
|
| Genre/Form |
Fiction
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Bush, Peter
|
| ISBN |
1847652395 |
|
9781847652393 |
|
