A l’ombre des murailles

Memory of a disappeared community In the Shadow of the Walls illustrates a vivid mosaic of memories that tells a whole family story, in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Meknes in Morocco. A neighborhood where the jnoun (spirits) terrorized the population and the devils (Angels of Death) made no distinction between children and parents, young and old, good and bad, poor and rich, believers and agnostics...
Childhood memories" are forever imprinted on our consciousness. They come back in this book, as in dreams, with sharp, sometimes blurred and often bizarre images. The setting and characters are authentic. The time is the fifties and sixties of the last century. The narrative has a literary intention, the child chases the adult, urging him to tell the past, without complacency and without nostalgia. The story is woven in a universe of proverbs that have nourished the youth of the narrator. Beyond the story of a family and its secrets, this book perpetuates the "collective memory" of a community now scattered to the four corners of the world.