Ahmed Sefrioui, and Sidi Mohammed recalls his childhood in the old Medina of Fes.

He led a quiet life with his mother, a housewife, and her father, tisserand.Il spent a good part of the book talking about the neighbors, family friends, their habits, their problems and their lives daily, and especially of Lalla Aicha's best friend Samer, who has suffered because of her husband ingras.La paisibilit life of this child of six years was troubled by the loss of his father's scholarship, a scholarship contained all his capital. This compelled the father of the family to work in the fields to resume your travail.Pendant his absence, the mother and child were visiting for daily mauseles ask the saints to make their father was healthy and wishes sauf.Leur exoc one month after the departure of the father, then things contrived little petit.Au midst of all these events, the box of wonders that had Sidi Mohammed played a very important role, she was a real comfort when he had bored was synonymous with access to its world propore

The author-character narrator recounts his childhood when he was six. In a back and forth between the views of the author-narrator and the author's adult-child narrator, the reader enters the world of the solitary narrator who, despite a few tentative friendships seems to count as a true friend that the box wonders. Taking stock of his childhood, the author recounts his days at Msid with the fqih and his classmates (= others), home of Dar Chouaf and habits of its people and the memory of his mother's pride on hisorigins and his habit to go from laughter to tears over his storytelling events in a way that fascinated his audience. Because of its kind, the story is a true testament to the experiences of his characters by the frequency of neighborhood names that are a real geographical mapping. The calm face of the father is sorely tested in the jewelry market when it comes to blows with the broker before purchasing gold and silver bracelets on her femme.Cet incident preceding the announcement of the loss of capital in the souk haiks of which tipped the living standards of families in poverty.After assuring the daily life of his family, the father from the vicinity of Fez to work as a harvester. After a month of absence, he returns home to learn of Moulay Larbi divorce with his second wife, the daughter of the hairdresser, which allows him to express his relief as to this outcome.

Ahmed Sefrioui (Arabic: was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in ) the French language. He was born in Fes in 1915 ofBerber parents.
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Sefrioui was founder of the Al Batha museum in Fes, a town that is present in almost all of his writings. After the Qur'an school and the schools of Fes Sefrioui has made French his own. As a young journalist for "Action du Peuple" and as writer of historical articles as a curator for the "Addoha" museum he mastered the language. After 1938 he worked at the government departments of culture, education and tourism in Rabat. He died in 2004.

La bote merveille (Le Seuil, 1954) : the city of Fez, as seen through the eyes of the little Mohammed. This novel about traditions and life in the city was a milestone for Moroccan literature.

Sidi Mohammed. a child of six years. fragile loner. and passionate about his box of wonders. he spends his time between Msid and his mother's skirts He tells us about his bad experience to the Turkish bath. Msid days detrimental to aman whose Fquih angry and authoritarian He also mentioned the dispute between his mother and Rahma. The disappearance ofZineb and death of hairdresser. He recounts the joy with which to recevoit Ashura: The purchase of new clothing, toys,celebrate the New Year at Msid He goes after the bad memory or his father lost his capital and had to leave workoutside of Fez. bluffs and days he spent alone with his mother until the return of father Finally he found happiness with his beloved box perfectly.