A masterful history of love, loss and modern Morocco
Klappentext:Spring, 1990. After years of searching in vain, a stranger passes a scrap of paper to Zina. It's from Aziz: the man who vanished the day after their wedding almost two decades ago. It propels Zina on a final quest for a secret desert jail in southern Morocco, where her husband crouches in despair, dreaming of his former life.
Fadel pays powerful testament to a terrible period in Morocco's history, known as "the years of cinders and lead", and deftly evokes the suffering inflicted on those who spupported the failed coup against King Hassan II in 1972.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Award-winning Moroccan novelist and screenwriter Youssef Fadel was born in 1949 in Casablanca, where he lives today. During Morocco's Years of Lead he was imprisoned in the notorious Derb Moulay Chérif prison, from 1974 to 1975. A Rare Blue Bird Flies With Me is his ninth novel and part of his modern Morocco trilogy, along with A Beautiful White Cat Walks With Me.
Translator Jonathan Smolin is the author of the critically acclaimed Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture (2013). He lives in Hanover, NH.
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