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...