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- catalog abstract "Seigneur Haj Ferdi is a very wealthy and powerful aristocratic property-owner in the Moroccan capital city of Casablanca. The aristocrat has grown his family inheritance into a very big fortune. He is a generous benefactor. The entire household fears and obeys the Seigneur. Haj Ferdi is diagnosed to be suffering from the terminal disease cirrhosis of the liver. He leaves his family and stays away on an island in his tomato plantation for five years. After the five years, he returns home; and is found dead two days later in Drissʹs room. All the sons come around for Hajʹs funeral ceremony. Driss, the narrator of the story, returns after sixteen years from France, leaving his French wife, his mother-in-law and son behind. The mourning lasts for ten days in Haj Ferdiʹs family, during which all the sons stay and sparsely feed together with their loneliest mother. Then, it comes to sharing Haj Ferdiʹs inheritance.".
- catalog alternative "Succession ouverte. English".
- catalog contributor b6244701.
- catalog contributor b6244702.
- catalog contributor b6244703.
- catalog coverage "France Ethnic relations Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "France Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Morocco Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Morocco Social conditions 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "1972.".
- catalog date "1972".
- catalog date "1972.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1972.".
- catalog description "Seigneur Haj Ferdi is a very wealthy and powerful aristocratic property-owner in the Moroccan capital city of Casablanca. The aristocrat has grown his family inheritance into a very big fortune. He is a generous benefactor. The entire household fears and obeys the Seigneur. Haj Ferdi is diagnosed to be suffering from the terminal disease cirrhosis of the liver. He leaves his family and stays away on an island in his tomato plantation for five years. After the five years, he returns home; and is found dead two days later in Drissʹs room. All the sons come around for Hajʹs funeral ceremony. Driss, the narrator of the story, returns after sixteen years from France, leaving his French wife, his mother-in-law and son behind. The mourning lasts for ten days in Haj Ferdiʹs family, during which all the sons stay and sparsely feed together with their loneliest mother. Then, it comes to sharing Haj Ferdiʹs inheritance.".
- catalog extent "[4], 107 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Heirs to the past.".
- catalog identifier "043590079X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Heirs to the past.".
- catalog isPartOf "African writers series, 79".
- catalog issued "1972".
- catalog issued "1972.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engfre".
- catalog publisher "London, Heinemann Educational,".
- catalog relation "Heirs to the past.".
- catalog spatial "France Ethnic relations Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "France Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "Morocco Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Morocco Social conditions 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "843/.9/14".
- catalog subject "Culture conflict Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Emigration and immigration Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Moroccans France Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PZ4.C552 He PQ2605.H76".
- catalog title "Heirs to the past; translated by Len Ortzen.".
- catalog title "Succession ouverte. English".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Parables. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".