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==General fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Najat El-Hachmi
|title=The Last Patriarch
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Najat El-Hachmi's debut novel, The Last Patriarch is a difficult book - both in terms of content and style. It's a story of physical and sexual abuse in a patriarchal Moroccan family, an immigrant story, when first the father and then the family move to Catalonia, and ultimately a story of the narrator, the patriarch's daughter, breaking free of her past as she takes on different cultural values. Narrated entirely from the perspective of the patriarch, Mimoun Driouch's unnamed daughter, the story is also concerned with cultural and imagined histories, and the importance of origin stories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687179</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Blake