Dreams of Maryam Tair
Subtitle: blue boots and orange blossoms
By: Mhani Alaoui
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Northampton, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781566560917
Description: Outside of time, the legendary queen Sheherazade tells a little girl a story that has happened, and is yet to happen. Dreams of Maryam Tair brings readers to a Casablanca of myth and metaphor, of curses, witches, djinns and demons. But it is also a very present-day Casablanca: a raw, pitiless landscape of crumbling urbanism and rusty ports, of bureaucrats and student revolts, and of a deep human solitude. During the Casablanca Bread Riots of 1981, a child is born to a mother surveilled and detained. She is born with the scent of orange blossoms and a body filled with pain. They call her Maryam Tair. A special, singular child, she is prophesized to carry three perfect gifts'and one relentless curse.