A rare blue bird flies with me / Youssef Fadel ; translated by Jonathan Smolin.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Cairo : Hoopoe, an imprint of American University In Cairo Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xi, 235 pages, 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9774167546; 9789774167546Uniform titles: طائر أزرق نادر يحلق معي. English Uniform titles: Ṭāʼir azraq nādir yuḥalliqu maʻī. English Subject(s): English fiction | English fictionDDC classification: 892.7/36 LOC classification: PR9619.F34 | R37 2016PJ7824.A31148 | T3513 2016Summary: It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives Zina a handwritten note from her husband, Aziz, who disappeared the day after their wedding, eighteen years ago, after participating in the failed 1972 coup against King Hassan II. Zina has spent the past eighteen years searching for Aziz, who has been imprisoned in inhuman conditions in a solitary cell inside a secret desert jail. Will Zina finally find Aziz? Moving back and forth between 1990 and the past, A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me recounts the painful circumstances that brought Zina and Aziz together and the torture after the 1972 coup that tore them apart.
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It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives Zina a handwritten note from her husband, Aziz, who disappeared the day after their wedding, eighteen years ago, after participating in the failed 1972 coup against King Hassan II. Zina has spent the past eighteen years searching for Aziz, who has been imprisoned in inhuman conditions in a solitary cell inside a secret desert jail. Will Zina finally find Aziz? Moving back and forth between 1990 and the past, A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me recounts the painful circumstances that brought Zina and Aziz together and the torture after the 1972 coup that tore them apart.
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