The King's Fool

Informationen zum Autor Mahi Binebine is a Moroccan painter, sculptor and author, born in Marrakesh in 1959. He studied mathematics in Paris and taught the subject for eight years before returning to Morocco in 2002. He is the author of six novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages between them, and his paintings are now part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Klappentext It is the final year of the twentieth century and King Sidi is dying . . . Mohamed has been the king's fool for thirty-five year, his closest counsel, privy to his deepest secrets and most intimate thoughts. It is an honoured position for which many would pay a hefty price. Something Mohamed understands only too well, for this closeness has indeed come at a terrible cost. The threat of imprisonment looms, even as the once-mighty monarch draws his final breaths. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant of the twentieth century, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he spent in the Moroccan king's service. For the many years of corrosive love and loyalty have left certain indelible wounds . . . Translated from the French by Ben Faccini Vorwort A story of corrosive love, loyalty and despotic power at the heart of the Moroccan court. Zusammenfassung A story of corrosive love, loyalty and despotic power at the heart of the Moroccan court.

Product details

• Authors: Mahi Binebine, Binebine Mahi
• Assisted by: Ben Faccini (Translation), Faccini Ben (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.07.2022
• EAN: 9780857058249
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-824-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Africa / North, Morocco, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, TRAVEL / Africa / North / Morocco, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary