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A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me

A Novel

Youssef Fadel author Alexander Elinson translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The American University in Cairo Press

Published:8th Sep '16

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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.

"...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." - The New Yorker

ISBN: 9789774167768

Dimensions: 205mm x 130mm x 13mm

Weight: 226g

232 pages