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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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        A life suddenly collapses and existences are turned upside down, and no one can do a thing about it. So says the young narrator of Binebine's frank and disturbing tale of a group of harragas, the term those who are stateless use to identify themselves. Some harragas have identity papers; others are without, and that is better. If you have them, burn them, because it is harder to repatriate the unidentified, undocumented person. Binebine, a Moroccan educated in France, made his name as a painter before turning to writing. His piercing novel is told in a series of flashbacks. Having paid a fortune, the motley harragas, virtual prisoners of a gruff and silent guide, wait through a cold night for the sign to push a rowboat into the sea to row across the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain, then to travel on to France. Their stories are grim, making for a strong, unsparing novel in which Binebine examines the difference between the fatal and the fateful.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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