A Moroccan Trilogy: Marrakesh, Rabat and Fez

by Jérôme and Jean Tharaud, Anthony Gladstone-Thompson (Translator)

Overview

From 1917–19, the Tharaud brothers immersed themselves in Morocco while observing the determined imposition of the French Protectorate at first hand. With unique access to both colonial manoeuvres and a now-vanished Moroccan way of life, they settled for periods in Marrakesh, Rabat and Fez to absorb and observe. We join them on visits to the Sultan one day and to the shrine of Sidi Ben Achir – part shrine, part mental asylum – on another. They watch the son and heir of the Glaoui dynasty die from wounds received in a mountain battle, and lovers weaving and ducking across the rooftops of Fez to reach their trysting place. This is the first translation of these vivacious works into English, giving access to the majesty, the squalor and above all the liveliness of this extraordinary period of Moroccan history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780602066
Publisher:	Eland Publishing
Publication date:	11/25/2021
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	399
File size:	766 KB

About the Author

After several trips all over North Africa during his Oxford University vacations, on graduation Anthony Gladstone-Thompson went out to Morocco to teach English, founding the British Centre in Casablanca in 1969. After seven years he returned to London to run his own language school, while raising a family and translating biographies of the artist Paul Helleu and the political philosopher Montesquieu. He now lives in East Sussex and France, and continues to travel extensively in Morocco whenever possible. He has written his own novel set in Morocco, Mauresque, published by Ashgrove.