Jeremy Ashland, a young teacher, arrives in Casablanca determined to be accepted as an enlightened foreigner at a time when its people are emerging from the trauma of colonialism. Underlying Jeremys adventures and the story of his forbidden love for a Moroccan girl with revolutionary aspirations, is the tension between Moroccans themselves, whose conflicting championship of their countrys nationhood he becomes tragically embroiled in. This is a strongly plotted rite-of-passage novel, beautifully but accessibly written, featuring clandestine relationships, political conspiracies, drug smuggling, murder and magic,