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Informationen zum Autor Tahir Shah was born into a prominent Anglo-Afghan family in 1966. He has devoted his life to searching for the hidden underbelly of lands through which he travels, and the realms on which he writes. He has published more than 60 books, with editions in thirty languages. In 2004, he moved with his young family to a ramshackle mansion in the middle of a sprawling Moroccan shantytown, and set about renovating the property, and exorcising the legions of wayward Jinns. Shah, who is regarded as a preeminent expert on folklore, established The Scheherazade Foundation, which strives to bridge cultures and to harness the knowledge locked in traditional tales the world over. He lives at his home, Dar Khalifa, in Casablanca. To find out more, visit: tahirshah.com Klappentext Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends' advice, he longed to fulfil his dream of finding a place bursting with life, colour, history and romance - somewhere far removed from London - in which to raise a family. Childhood memories of holidaying with his parents, and of a grandfather he barely knew, led him to Morocco and to ' Dar Khalifa', a sprawling and, with the exception of its jinns, long-abandoned residence on the edge of Casablanca's shanty town that, rumour had it, once belonged to the city's Caliph. And so begins Tahir Shah's gloriously vivid, funny, affectionate and compelling account of how he and his family - aided, abetted and so often hindered by a wonderful cast of larger-than-life local characters: guardians, gardeners, builders, artisans, bureacrats and police (not forgetting the jinns, the spirits that haunt the house) - returned the Caliph's House to its former glory and learned to make this most exotic and alluring of countries their home. The Caliph's House is a story of home-ownership abroad - full of the attendant dramas, anxieties and frustrations - but it is also much more. Woven into the narrative is the author's own journey of self-discovery, of learning about a grandfather he hardly knew, and of coming to love the magical, multi-faceted, contradictory country that is Morocco. Zusammenfassung Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life....
