Casablanca Story

In Koli Jean Bofane author Bill Johnston translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:3rd May '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Casablanca Story cover

One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges.

In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction.

Following on from Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane shifts his geographical focus to outline a vision that encompasses both north and sub-Saharan Africans: Africa is moving forward and is the equal of the other continents or, to put it another way, Africa is no better than they are.

Casablanca Story illustrates, in a beautiful way, a moment of life at the crossroads of globalization and unique destinies.

* Afrique Contemporaine *

In Koli Jean Bofane shows a reality that we do not know how to see. Or, maybe, that we don't want to see.

* La Croix *

The best noir fiction can be a means to capture the complexities and inequalities of an entire city, a lens for social critique, and still a damn good mystery. In Koli Jean Bofane's Casablanca Story is all three—and a prescient warning about climate change, as the hot desert winds buffet the working-class neighborhoods of Casablanca that make up the book's setting.

* Crimerea

ISBN: 9780253058799

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 218g

166 pages