A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me

Aziz, an air force pilot, lives for flying. On his wedding night his mind is on his plane, not on Zina, his sixteen-year-old bride in the next room; he sits up in uniform and walks out at daybreak. Zina, whose own family has fallen apart, later works with her sister Khatima in a bar in Azrou, and for nearly twenty years goes from prison to prison and office to office, through forests and towns, chasing broken promises and never doubting he is alive. Then a stranger tucks a note into her pocket, and she sets out on a final trip south to the Glaoui kasbah where he is locked up. The novel is a testimony to Morocco's years of lead.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

326 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Morocco

First published

2013 by Dar al-Adab

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9789953892498 (original)

9789774167546 (Hoopoe, Egypt)

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