The death of Murat Idrissi
(2019)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/WIERINGA,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Brunswick, Victoria, Australia : Scribe Publications, 2019
DESCRIPTION
102 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781950354368, 1950354369 :, 1950354369, 9781950354368
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published as De dood van Murat Idrissi in Dutch in 2017
Two women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and saviour, they embrace his offer. He extracts them from a tight space, only to lead them inexorably into an even tighter one: and from this far darker space there is no exit. Their tale of confinement and escape is as old as the landscapes and cultures so vividly depicted in this story of where Europe and Africa come closest to meeting, even if they never quite touch