Secret son

291 pages

English language

Published Dec. 31, 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

ISBN:
978-1-56512-494-3
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OCLC Number:
244419812

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When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering on the local cinema's screen offer the only glimmer of hope to his frustrated dreams of escape. Until, that is, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive.A high profile businessman with wealth to burn, Nabil is disenchanted with his daughter and eager to take in the boy he never knew. Soon Youssef is installed in his penthouse and sampling the gold-plated luxuries enjoyed by Casablanca's elite. But as he leaves the slums of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly un-glittering reality...

2 editions

Subjects

  • Young men -- Morocco -- Casablanca -- Fiction
  • Casablanca (Morocco) -- Fiction
  • Morocco -- Fiction