Nekropolis24 reviews
Maureen F. Mchugh

Eos, 2002

Not McHugh's Best Work

In Nekropolis, Maureen F. McHugh tackles gender issues in a way that hearkens to some of Ursula K. LeGuin's best work. Nekropolis is at it's heart the story of a forbidden love. Hariba is a Moroccan woman sometime in the future who has had some type of behavior modification (jessing) performed ...
  
  











  



  
Never Marry in Morocco4 reviews
Virginia Dale

Fithian Pr, 1996

Reading the Review of this book, but not the book...

+ How Appropriate
+ Entertaining and enlightening read
+ Captivating personalized history of 60s Morocco.
  
  











  



  
The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)108 reviews
Paul Bowles

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

lost in the desert

+ One of a Kind
+ Trip to the Maghreb
+ Character is Destiny
  
  











  



  
The Road to Fez18 reviews
Ruth Knafo Setton

Counterpoint Press, 2001

the best book I've ever read

+ A Beautiful Song!
+ Breathtaking!
+ Fierce and brilliant!
+ READ THIS BOOK!
  
  











  



  
Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco1 review
Tony Ardizzone

Milkweed Editions, 1992

Great journeys in Morocco

A wonderful collection of short stories! Memorable characters!
  
  











  



  
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream1289 reviews
Paulo Coelho

HarperSanFrancisco, 1995

Inspiring

+ Actually life-changing
+ Overall, a good read

Anyone unsure of what they want to do after high school should read this book.
  
  











  



  
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits30 reviews
Laila Lalami

Algonquin Books, 2005

The Audacity of Hope

+ Wow. Just wow.
+ Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
+ Can the poor afford to hope?
  
  











  



  
The Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco5 reviews
Kitty Morse, Danielle Mamane

Ten Speed Press, 2001

a spice filled welcome addition to Jewish cookbooks

+ Great purchase!
+ The Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco
+ Amazing mint tea by Kitty Morse
+ The Scent of Orange Blossoms
  
  











  



  
Street in Marrakech9 reviews
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Waveland Press, 1988

Sensitive, informative and interesting

+ A Street in Marrakesh
+ La bes!
+ on becoming a neighbor
+ A "must" before going to Morocco!
  
  











  



  
Kassim's Shoes
Harold Berson

Random House Childrens Books, 1977

Kassim succumbs to pressure to abandon his old shoes but has trouble discarding them.
  
  











  



  
The Lemon1 review
Mohammed Mrabet

City Lights Publishers, 2001

A Bowles/Mrabet Classic

Paul Bowles discovered Mrabet when the latter was a young man living in Tangiers and the former was already an accomplished musician and writer. The elder Bowles took Mrabet under his wing and translated/edited several of his short stories and novels. THE LEMON is one of Mrabet's most sustainted ...
  
  











  



  
Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (CMES Modern Middle East Literature in ...9 reviews
Leila Abouzeid

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989

I Will Survive!

+ Delightful Tale of Female Independence
+ Very helpful
+ A Woman's Realization in Year of the Elephant
+ Year of the Elephant by Leila Abouzeid
  
  











  



  
Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from My Moroccan Kitchen24 reviews
Kitty Morse

Chronicle Books, 1998

The Top Moroccan recipe cook book

+ Great Moroccan cookbook
+ Delicious, Delightful, Delovely

Kitty Morse is probably the primary Moroccan cook book author and well deserved. She still has a home in Morocco and leads a cooking tour once a year. The book contains all types of recipes to have a true diffa (feast) and uses ingredients generally available (you should make preserved lemons). The ...
  
  











  



  
In Morocco2 reviews
Edith Wharton

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2005

It's been along while since

It's been along while since I read this book but after the negative review, I must read again. I remember her descriptions of Morocco and the people being quite fascinating but I don't remember them being racist......maybe, this world of Moroc was so far from the culture she was accustomed. Maybe ...
  
  











  



  
The Sand Child5 reviews
Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

poetry in prose

+ Wow
+ Amazing

Tahar Ben Jelloun is a master of the written word, able to weave into his novels issues of social and political concern while at the same time composing sometimes humorous, often lyrical, and always thoughtful story-lines.
  
  











  



  
Hideous Kinky: A Novel25 reviews
Esther Freud

Harper Perennial, 1999

Morocco, as a Child

+ Hideous Kinky - an interesting read
+ Wonderfully kinky and a little sad
+ Atmospheric
  
  











  



  
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-19563 reviews
Gavin Maxwell

The Lyons Press, 2002

An epic story of Moroccan history

+ Informative but Sometimes Dry Account of the Glaoui Brothers' Reign.
+ Not your usual history

Lay readers and any with a general interest in history will relish this survey of the rise and fall of the house of Glaoua from 1893-1956: Lords Of The Atlas provides an epic story of Moroccan history which reads almost like fiction but which is packed with facts. Add the unusual attribute of ...
  
  











  



  
See Ouarzazate and Die: Travels Through Morocco1 review
Sylvia Kennedy

Little Brown & Co (P), 1995

Outstanding travel book

This is the most entertaining book about Morocco ever written
  
  











  



  
Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler13 reviews
Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

One of the best

+ View to a different world
+ Worth the effort

Mr. Mackintosh-Smith can write!! He is a stylist of the highest order. He combines this with a Quixote-like obsession with Ibn-Batuta and an erudite facility with Arabic. All this makes for a book that offers a personal, insightful and often very funny guide to regions of the world that could do ...
  
  











  



  
Sweetness in the Belly: A Novel17 reviews
Camilla Gibb

Penguin Press HC, The, 2006

a wonderful read

+ Intiguing glimpse into village life in Ethiopia
+ Lovely prose, Bittersweet story
+ A whole New World!
+ 'We still have dreams ..'