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Built like a mosaic, the novel joins three embedded manuscripts set in Oualili, the Moroccan town beside the Roman ruins of Volubilis. The first, a novel called The Young Moor, goes back to Roman rule in North Africa and to a mosaic that speaks for the Moors who resisted the invaders. In the second, set in 1994–1996, the American writer Ariadna Noel hunts for a lost fragment of mosaic, guided by Lina, an American widow of a Moroccan, in whose house part of it is kept; she falls in love with Jawad, the author of the first manuscript. The third holds a psychiatrist's notes on two patients, one of whom was jailed for a decade, wrongly accused of stealing a bronze Bacchus from the site.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

453 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Morocco

First published

2023 by Masciliana

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789938979374 (original)