Israel ben Oliel serves the governor of a Moroccan town and is hated for it by Muslims and Jews alike. When his wife dies, his only comfort is his daughter Naomi, born blind, deaf and mute, whose slow awakening to the world becomes the heart of the story. Caine sets it during a drought and amid the cruelties of Moroccan rule in the mid-nineteenth century.
A sympathetic portrait of a persecuted Jewish father by one of the most popular novelists of the 1890s, though its view of Morocco is plainly that of its era. Download the free EPUB.