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Secret Son

Laila Lalami author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:28th Apr '11

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When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...

Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape - until, one day, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive, and whisks him from the slums into the luxurious life of Casablanca's elite. But as he leaves the poverty of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly un-glittering reality...

ISBN: 9780141042732

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 500g

304 pages