| Casablanca Story Contributor(s): Bofane, In Koli Jean (Author), Johnston, Bill (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0253058791 ISBN-13: 9780253058799 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: 843.92 |
| LCCN: 2021022447 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.48 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |