The Final Bet
An Arabic Detective Novel
Abdelilah Hamdouchi author Jonathan Smolin translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The American University in Cairo Press
Published:18th Aug '16
Should be back in stock very soon
The first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English
When young and handsome Othman married Sofia-sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior-he found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca. But when Sofia is brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime suspect. With his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or has he been framed by an overzealous, corrupt police force?
"Abdelilah Hamdouchi seems to have found the formula for the emergence of the Moroccan detective novel."—Liberation Kaleidoscope
"The Final Bet is a great introduction to Moroccan policiers—at once very familiar to western crime fiction readers, but then very Moroccan too as family loyalties, filial debts and traditional prejudices all swirl around the case."—Literary Hub
PRAISE FOR ABDELILIAH HAMDOUCHI:
“A winner"—M. Lynx Qualey, The National
“This is a pithy, moving and crisply written crime novel featuring Detective Hanash.”—Peter Kalu, Banipal
"Hamdouchi is an artful storyteller"—Tank Magazine
“A great introduction to Moroccan 'policiers'"—Paul French, Literary Hub
"Detailed and strikingly alive"—Omotola Otubela, Wawa Book Review
PRAISE FOR THE BUTCHER OF CASABLANCA:
“A world rarely presented in crime fiction”—Kirkus Reviews
"The Butcher of Casablanca is entertaining, at times very funny but it always has that thread of social critique about it that pulls the reader up, we are laughing at dark things sometimes”—NB Magazine
ISBN: 9789774167799
Dimensions: 205mm x 130mm x 15mm
Weight: 144g
144 pages