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A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me: a Novel

✍ Scribed by Elinson, Alexander;Fadel, Youssef


Book ID
100577198
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press; I.B. Tauris
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
132 KB
Series
Hoopoe Fiction
Category
Fiction
City
Cairo
ISBN
1617977454

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✦ Synopsis


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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