A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me

By Youssef Fadel

Book Overview

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774167546
• ISBN13: 9789774167546
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Hoopoe
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"