num_pages: 120
description: Considered one of Morocco s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society. In "The Elusive Fox," Zafzaf s first novel to be translated into English, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society.More than a novel, "The Elusive Fox" is a portrait of a city during a time of fluidcultural and political mores in Morocco."
language: English
title: The Elusive Fox
publisher: Syracuse University Press