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1) Tangerine
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Language
English
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Description
Alice, a fragile Englishwoman, has landed in Tangier after a sudden marriage to one of those British gentlemen whose pedigree masks his idler essence. The marriage is a way of escaping the scandal that caused Alice?s breakdown and forced her to leave college in Vermont. When Lucy, Alice?s college roommate, turns up at Alice?s door in Tangier, the dance begins, switching the narration between Alice and Lucy, as we gradually learn what happened in Vermont...
Author
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Francis Bacon mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murder.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." -Junot Diaz
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain.What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth...
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Series
Library of America volume 134
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"With his acclaimed ability to write thought-provoking page-turners, Douglas Kennedy takes readers into a world where only Patricia Highsmith has ever dared. The Blue Hour is a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question: What would you do if your life depended on it?"--Amazon.com.
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English
Description
The story of American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II. Although the couple apear to be smart, independent travelers, they are not equipped to travel into the desert.Thus, each time hardship strikes, pieces of their comfortable lives and the identities they had constructed seem to peel away. The shifting sands and unforgiving sun are metaphors for the shocking and vulgar circumstances that befall them.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 135
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
10) Watch us dance
Author
Series
In the country of others volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others"--
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English
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The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry-possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Corazón," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job the assistant to the brilliant, enigmatic novelist known as Maud Dixon - whose true identity is a secret - it appears that the universe is finally providing Florence's big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed...
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Series
Publisher
Temas De Hoy
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1a ed. en México.
Language
Español
Description
La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al alzamiento y se instala en Tánger con un amante que apenas conoce. Al encontrarse abandonada, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, forja una nueva identidad y logra poner en marcha un selecto atelier en el que atiende a clientas de orígenes remotos y presentes insospechados. Esa novela avanza con ritmo imparable por los mapas, la memoria y la nostalgia, transportándonos hasta los legendarios...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America -- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador P?nfilo de Narv?ez sailed from the port of Sanl?car de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and,...
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