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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Author(s): Laila Lalami

Location(s): Morocco, Casablanca

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future.

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