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"Metonymic or symbolic, the hand seems to play the role of an autobiographical motive of the Maghreb, the simple popular saying uttered by superstition (± khamsa?) Against the evil eye, the inaugural gesture of the open hand as a sign of death. A typically Mediterranean hospitality... Five writers, five women who maintain a special bond of affection with the Maghreb, stage, decline and release the imaginary of the hand, of memory, of beliefs, of secret and intimate emotions, of the time whose traces are deposited in the hollow of the lines of the hand"--Translation of the information provided by the publisher.