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A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me: A Novel
Youssef Fadel
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It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives Zina a handwritten note from her husband, Aziz, who disappeared the day after their wedding, eighteen years ago, after participating in the failed 1972 coup against King Hassan II. Zina has spent the past eighteen years searching for Aziz, who has been imprisoned in inhuman conditions in a solitary cell inside a secret desert jail. Will Zina finally find Aziz? Moving back and forth between 1990 and the past, A Rare Blue Bird That Flies with Me recounts ... Read more
It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives Zina a handwritten note from her husband, Aziz, who disappeared the day after their wedding, eighteen years ago, after participating in the failed 1972 coup against King Hassan II. Zina has spent the past eighteen years searching for Aziz, who has been imprisoned in inhuman conditions in a solitary cell inside a secret desert jail. Will Zina finally find Aziz? Moving back and forth between 1990 and the past, A Rare Blue Bird That Flies with Me recounts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774167546
SKU
V9789774167546
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About Youssef Fadel
Award-winning Moroccan novelist and screenwriter Youssef Fadel was born in Casablanca in 1949. During Morocco's so-called 'Years of Lead' he was imprisoned in the notorious Moulay al-Sheriff prison (1974-75). A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me is his ninth novel. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.Associate Professor of Arabic at Dartmouth, Jonathan Smolin received his doctorate from Harvard. His research ... Read more
Reviews for A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me: A Novel
A masterful history of modern Morocco.
BookShy Blog [Fadel is] a valued asset of modern Moroccan literature.
Aujourd'hui le Maroc Events progress rapidly and with the acute tension of a detective novel
Leah Caldwell, The National Fadel's daring account of modern Morocco ... Read more
BookShy Blog [Fadel is] a valued asset of modern Moroccan literature.
Aujourd'hui le Maroc Events progress rapidly and with the acute tension of a detective novel
Leah Caldwell, The National Fadel's daring account of modern Morocco ... Read more