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A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me

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A modern Moroccan tale of power, love, and lossHassan makes a living in his native Marrakesh as a comic writer and performer, through his satirical sketches critical of Morocco’s rulers. Yet when h...
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A modern Moroccan tale of power, love, and loss

Hassan makes a living in his native Marrakesh as a comic writer and performer, through his satirical sketches critical of Morocco’s rulers. Yet when he is suddenly conscripted into a losing war in the Sahara, and drafted to a far-flung desert outpost, it seems that all is lost.

Could his estranged father, close to power as the king’s private jester, have something to do with his sudden removal from the city? And will he ever see his beloved wife Zinab again?

With flowing prose and black humor, Youssef Fadel subtly tells the story of 1980s Morocco.
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Price: $18.95
Pages: 232
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: Hoopoe
Series: Hoopoe Fiction
Publication Date: 15 September 2016
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9789774167768
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

"An astonishing novel."—Le Monde Diplomatique

"[Fadel is] a valued asset of modern Moroccan literature."—Aujourd'hui Le Maroc

"There are still those in Morocco who, as Fadel sees it, resist the pressures of the world around them through the force of their love for one another. Fadel depicts such characters in his novels: romantics and dreamers who serve as foils to the rotting, corrupt worlds they inhabit."—Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker

"Taps into a theme whose ramifications are entwined with the many wounds that Moroccan post-independence collective memory is struggling to work through."—Brahim El Guabli, Journal of North African Studies

Award-winning Moroccan novelist and screenwriter Youssef Fadel was born in Casablanca in 1949. During Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’ he was imprisoned in the notorious Moulay Cherif prison (1974–75). A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is his tenth novel, and the final part in his modern Morocco series. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.

Alexander E. Elinson is an associate professor of Arabic at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and the translator of A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me by Youssef Fadel.