HONOR TO THE BRIDE LIKE THE PIGEON THAT GUARDS ITS GRAIN UNDER THE CLOVE TREE by Jane Kramer. 211 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $5.95.
Honor to the Bride, etc. is just what its title is not: brief, deft, racy and funny. Set in the Moroccan city of Meknes, it is a kind of Arab shaggy-dog story that happens to be true.
The hero and heroine are Omar ben Allel and his wife Dawia, who live with six of their children in three rooms in a ramshackle section of the city. The key child is their...
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