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Book SynopsisConsidered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by those living in the margins of society. In
The Elusive Fox, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society.
Trade Review“
The Elusive Fox is an indelible portrait of a man in transit and a country in transition. Zafzaf writes without indulgence, yet with sympathy and humor, about life in the coastal town Essaouira, where locals and tourists mingle, mutually exposing their hypocrisies. A gritty, powerful novel by one of Morocco’s greatest writers.” —Laila Lalami, author of
The Moor’s Account“A key novel by one of Morocco’s most important Arabic novelists. . . . Represents the neglected Arabic perspective on the characters Beat generation writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs encountered during their stay in Morocco.” —Jonathan Smolin, associate professor of Arabic, Dartmouth College
“A welcome addition to the canon of works of Moroccan literature in translation.” —William Hutchins, translator of
Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
