[1] The plot centres on a young woman named Nafisa, who comes home for the summer holidays from university to find that her father Abed bin al-Qadi wants her to marry her to one of the men of the village, though neither she does not wish to.
Abed bin Al-Qadi is preparing to go to the market with his son Abdul Qadir when he forms the idea of marrying his daughter Nafisa to Malik, the Sheikh of the municipality.
First published in French as Le Vent du Sud by Société Nationale d’Edition et de Diffusion in 1970 (trans.
Marcel Bois); first published in Spanish as El Viento del Sur by Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura in 1981 (trans.
[6] The 1976 film adaptation of the novel by fr: Mohamed Slim Riad altered the ending of the story - Nafisa reaches the station and her father does not manage to catch up with her in time to stop her.