The English understand wool /

"Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy mo...

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Author / Creator: DeWitt, Helen, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Series:Storybook ND.
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