
A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me
A Novel
248 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
- Paperback
- 9789774167546
- April 2016
- Region: Worldwide
$16.95
£8.99
LE250.00
- EPUB
- 9781617977206
- April 2016
- Region: Worldwide
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Translated by Jonathan Smolin
248 Pages, 5.00 x 8.00 in
$16.95
£8.99
LE250.00
$16.99
Where To Buy:
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.
Youssef Fadel pays powerful testament to a terrible period in Morocco’s history, known as ‘the Years of Cinders and Lead,’ and masterfully evokes the suffering inflicted on those who supported the failed coup against King Hassan II in 1972.
Award-winning Moroccan novelist and screenwriter Youssef Fadel was born in Casablanca in 1949. During Morocco’s ‘Years of Lead’ he was imprisoned in the notorious Moulay Cherif prison (1974–75). A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me is his ninth novel. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.
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.
"A masterful history of modern Morocco."--BookShy Blog
"[Fadel is] a valued asset of modern Moroccan literature."--Aujourd'hui le Maroc
"Events progress rapidly and with the acute tension of a detective novel"--Leah Caldwell, The National
"Fadel's daring account of modern Morocco widens the periphery of the English reader on a subject that is better known in Arabic and French."--Sherif Dhaimish, Qantara.de
"A Rare Blue Bird Flies With Me reads like a taut and claustrophobic detective story."--Literary Hub
"Fadel's novel brings out the importance of seeing one's place even in the darkest of times."--Wawa Book Review
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