Welcome to paradise
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Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants, pulled by the dream of a better life, gather one night near the Straight of Gibraltar, the ten-mile-wide waterway that separates Europe and Africa, to wait for a signal from traffickers that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold: Kacem is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything, but the only person who can help them is Morad, a fast-talking ex-con. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation.
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Grouping Title | welcome to paradise |
Grouping Author | mahi binebine |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2022-05-20 02:08:33AM |
Last Indexed | 2022-05-20 02:51:42AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | 9781862075177 |
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display_description | Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants, pulled by the dream of a better life, gather one night near the Straight of Gibraltar, the ten-mile-wide waterway that separates Europe and Africa, to wait for a signal from traffickers that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold: Kacem is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything, but the only person who can help them is Morad, a fast-talking ex-con. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publisher | Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, Tin House Books Tin House Books ; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Immigrants -- Fiction Morocco -- Fiction Refugees -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Welcome to paradise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Welcome to Paradise Welcome to paradise / Mahi Binebine ; translated by Lulu Norman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Welcome to paradise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Fiction Immigrants Literature Refugees |