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African Shore

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  • "Loosely interweaving the stories of Hamsa, a Moroccan shepherd preparing himself to serve as a lookout for a smuggling operation run by his uncle, and of a Colombian tourist (not named until the end), who, having lost his passport during a night of drunken debauchery, finds himself stuck in Morocco. Like that stranded traveler, who occupies most of the storyline, the narrative is content to meander, seemingly refusing action and appearing to take pleasure in passivity. The two strands of the work coalesce around an owl, impulsively purchased by the tourist and sought after by Hamsa, who believes that the bird's plucked out eyes will work as an amulet should the job his uncle promises materialize. Less a conventional novel, more an episodic exploration of ennui, superstition, and the intersection of European, Latin American, and Arab cultures."
  • "De levens van een Colombiaan en een schaapherder in Tanger krijgen een andere wending door dezelfde uil."
  • "Un jeune cadre colombien perd son passeport à Tanger et ne peut plus quitter la ville. Il perd progressivement ses repères et devient autre, l'habitant d'un monde transitoire, instable et sans avenir. Dans ce récit sur la crise d'identité d'un homme, le lecteur ne cesse de s'interroger sur le sens des gestes et des paroles du protagoniste."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "De Afrikaanse kust : roman"
  • "The African shore"
  • "La Orilla africana"
  • "La rive africaine : roman"
  • "Tanger : Roman"
  • "African Shore"@en
  • "The African shore = (La orilla africana)"
  • "La orilla africana"
  • "La orilla africana"@es
  • "The African shore (La orilla africana)"

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