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- Release Date: 01/31/2011
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
- Classification: Fiction
- Classification: Fiction
- Series: N/A
- Language: English
- Format: Unabridged edition
- Genre: Literary, Cultural
- Author: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
- Read by: Gerard Kyle
- Duration: 617 minutes
- Run Time: 617 minutes
- Language: English
- Language: English
- Audio Library Digital - 9781611200904
- Audio Retail Digital - 9781611200447
- 8 Audio CD(s) - 9781611200171
- Playaway - 9781611201734
The Storyteller of Marrakesh
The Storyteller of Marrakesh
- By Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Audio Library Digital
01/31/2011
617 minutes
9781611200904
Audio Retail Digital
01/31/2011
617 minutes
9781611200447
Audio CD
01/31/2011
8 Audio CD
617 minutes
9781611200171
Playaway
01/31/2011
617 minutes
9781611201734
Description:
Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple, Hassan hopes to light upon the details that will explain what happened to them, and to absolve his own brother, who is in prison for their disappearance. But is this annual storytelling ritual a genuine attempt to uncover the truth, or is it intended instead to weave and ambiguous mythology around a crime? The first in an ambitious cycle of novels set in the Islamic world, The Storyteller of Marrakesh is an elegant exploration of the nature of reality and our shifting perceptions of truth.Quotes:
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Editor's Choice. An enigmatic fable in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights., The New York Times
Editor's Choice. An enigmatic fable in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights., The New York Times
Steeped in the ambience of Marrakesh, this exotic metafictional tale marks Roy-Bhattacharya's U.S. debut and will appeal to readers of complex narratives by unreliable narrators. Lovers of mysteries with ambiguous endings will also enjoy this novel., Library Journal
Steeped in the ambience of Marrakesh, this exotic metafictional tale marks Roy-Bhattacharya's U.S. debut and will appeal to readers of complex narratives by unreliable narrators. Lovers of mysteries with ambiguous endings will also enjoy this novel., Library Journal
[A] broad, discursive, plausible, and often beguiling presentation of a contemporary Islamic culture changed little by centuries, geopolitics, globalization or religious enmity. Roy-Bhattacharya's descriptive powers are acute, and Marrakesh, the Djemaa, the Sahara, and the High Atlas Mountains are vividly rendered through all the senses. In a time when tensions between Islam and the West are fevered, The Storyteller of Marrakesh offers an agreeable change of pace., Booklist
[A] broad, discursive, plausible, and often beguiling presentation of a contemporary Islamic culture changed little by centuries, geopolitics, globalization or religious enmity. Roy-Bhattacharya's descriptive powers are acute, and Marrakesh, the Djemaa, the Sahara, and the High Atlas Mountains are vividly rendered through all the senses. In a time when tensions between Islam and the West are fevered, The Storyteller of Marrakesh offers an agreeable change of pace., Booklist
...a mosaic of stories winningly delivered by Gerard Kyle. Kyle's facility with portraying nationality and gender makes his narration a delight. He juggles dozens of characters, as well as Roy-Bhattacharya's elevated language, with a profound elegance., AudioFile Magazine
...a mosaic of stories winningly delivered by Gerard Kyle. Kyle's facility with portraying nationality and gender makes his narration a delight. He juggles dozens of characters, as well as Roy-Bhattacharya's elevated language, with a profound elegance., AudioFile Magazine
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