商品簡介
Spring, 1990. After years of searching in vain, a stranger presses a scrap of paper into Zina's pocket. 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 masterfully evokes the suffering inflected on those who supported the failed coup against King Hassan II in 1972.
作者簡介
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 al-Sheriff prison (74-75).Blue bird is his 9th novel. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.
Translator Jonathan Smolin is the author of the critically- acclaimedMoroccan Noir: Police, Crime, & Politics in Popular Culture (2013). He lives in Hanover, NH.
