Mohammed Mrabet

In the first story, Fuad learns from Driss what real friendship is; in the second, Mseud hears a voice that guides him through life

The Beach Café & The Voice

"Ah," said Hassan, "I don't believe in the world. There's another world where life is different." These are stories of that world. The word m'hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of "behashished" or "full of hashish") is used only in a literal sense, but...

M'Hashish

The Big Mirror

Hadidan Aharam

Recounts incidents from Mrabet's youth on the streets of Tangier. Starting with the author's adventures as a poor Moroccan boy later taken to the USA by a besotted couple, This culminates in an account of Mrabet's life in the household of Jane and Pa

Look and Move on

This powerful and shocking narrative recounts the adventures of Abdeslam, a precocious twelve-year-old Moroccan boy who runs away from his home in the Rif Mountains to Tangier. There he struggles to retain his childlike innocence and native pride while striving to support himself in the corrupt and decadent international port. He takes up with a longshoreman and soon meets a rogue's gallery of friends, mostly hustlers and down-and-outers. With his characteristic brilliance and streetwise charm, Mrabet develops the novel's ambiguous theme of the necessity of violence to retain one's innocence. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Feb. 26, 2014).

The Lemon

Look & Move on

This powerful and shocking narrative recounts the adventures of Abdeslam, a precocious twelve-year-old Moroccan boy who runs away from his home in the Rif Mountains to Tangier. There he struggles to retain his childlike innocence and native pride...

Mohammed Mrabet

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