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Paige Glasgow, an American psychiatrist visiting Spain, discovers the decapitated head of a Muslim woman on the beach. Is the work of jihadists? The Sons of the Emir? Or a hate crime perpetrated by the Knights of Constancia, Catholic terrorists hell-bent on reviving the Inquisition? Against her better judgment, Paige enters into an abusive relationship with a seductive officer of the Knights, making herself a player in the centuries-old conflict between...
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"Éste es un libro escrito sobre la piel, como un tatuaje ritual del deseo. En nueve capítulos de nueve fragmentos cada uno, escuchamos leyendas sobre el origen de Mogador dentro de nuestra piel, sobre la conducta peculiar de la luz y el tiempo entre sus murallas, sobre los métodos que allá usan para cantar sus historias, sobre la severa dictadura de la piel, el sabor de las palabras, las bibliotecas sorpresivas y la música elemental del cuerpo....
63) Fábula asiática
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A Mexican writer visit an old friend in Tangiers who confesses that his son Abdelkrim is in trouble. He also hands him a bag with several audiotapes that tells the story of the Moroccan boy, a young math and technology prodigy who received a scholarship to study at a university in the United States and selected to attend a special NASA program. Alongside the audiotapes, he also receives a USB drive containing documents in Arabic which he must decode....
64) The sand child
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In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named...
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Driven by the desire to do good in the world, Hamou Badi, marked by djinns, becomes an officer of the law in Casablanca under the French Protectorate and is caught in the crossfire as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts, forcing him to choose between all he knows and all he loves.
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