Inspector Ali
By: Driss Chraïbi ; translated from the French by Lara McGlashan.
Edition: 1st English language ed.
Publisher: Three Continents Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Married people -- Fiction; Scots -- Morocco -- Fiction; Morocco -- Fiction
Description: After many years abroad, the narrator, Brahim, with his much beloved Scottish wife and two very peppy boys, returns to his home village, El Jadida, in Morocco. Having invented an alter-ego, Inspector Ali, now becoming an incubus, he finds himself "adrift" if "world famous" as the author of the too scrutible, but very Sherlockian sleuth, with great solutions to crimes to his credit.

Then arrive Jock and Susan, his wife's parents from Scotland, loaded down with golf clubs and nervous expectations of a mysterious land. Islam, bankers, a statuesque cook-maid, bureaucrats, students, bakers, butchers, aging Mercedes taxi drivers, nostalgia, writers bloc, all invade and saturate this volume, crosscutting into the narrative.
Notes: "An original from Three Continents Press."