The grove of pomegranate trees on the land of the al-Hudayl family of a region close to Granada (Gharnata) is the place where the privileged family members re-establish their family and class relations for future generations. The young buck, Zuhayr, uses the place to seduce the domestic servants, who will be farmed off to distant relatives when their pregnancies are confirmed; the daughters of the house use it in the same way that their predecessors did in testing the love of those who have proclaimed it for them.
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