Author

Publication

2009 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

72,750 words, Guess

Page Count

291 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3612.A543 S43 2009
  • LCCPS3612.A543S43 2009

Description

When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering on the local cinema's screen offer the only glimmer of hope to his frustrated dreams of escape. Until, that is, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive.A high profile businessman with wealth to burn, Nabil is disenchanted with his daughter and eager to take in the boy he never knew. Soon Youssef is installed in his penthouse and sampling the gold-plated luxuries enjoyed by Casablanca's elite. But as he leaves the slums of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly un-glittering reality...

Subjects

Topics

FictionGeneralYoung menLiteratureMorocco, fictionMorocco -- FictionFiction, political

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • Secret sonAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill2009-01-01

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