Tattooed Memory

Tattooed Memory (La Mémoire tatouée) is the first novel of the great Moroccan
critic and novelist Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938-2009). Only one other novels has
been translated into English (Love In Two Languages, 1991). Khatibi belongs to
the generation following the foundational generation of writers such as Driss
Chraïbi. For Khatibi's generation, French colonialism is a vibrant memory -
but a memory from childhood. Tattooed Memory is part bildungsroman, part
anticolonial treatise, and part language experiment, and it takes us from
earliest childhood memory to young adulthood.