num_pages: 176
description: Mahi Binebine's courageous novel delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation. Mahi Binebines courageous novel takes place in Morocco where seven would-be immigrants gather one night near the Strait of Gibraltar to wait for a signal from a trafficker that it is time to cross. While they wait their stories Kacem Judi is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara with her newborn child hopes to find her husband who hasnt been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz the young narrator and his cousin Reda are severed in different ways from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news delivering a compassionate and striking portrait of human desperation.
language: English
title: Welcome to Paradise
publisher: Tin House Books