Welcome to Paradise
Autor Mahi Binebine Traducere de Lulu Normanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012
Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants, pulled by the dream of a better life, gather one night near the Straight of Gibraltar, the ten-mile-wide waterway that separates Europe and Africa, to wait for a signal from traffickers that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold: Kacem is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything, but the only person who can help them is Morad, a fast-talking ex-con. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781935639275
ISBN-10: 1935639277
Pagini: 173
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Tin House Books
ISBN-10: 1935639277
Pagini: 173
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Tin House Books
Recenzii
"...determinedly humanistic and profoundly touching..." —Shelf Awareness starred review
"...A strong, unsparing novel..."—Booklist
“A masterful account of North Africans trying to sneak across the Straits of Gibraltar into Spain . . . A fine debut: richly atmospheric and evocative, at once a sharply narrated tale of suspense and a carefully constructed memoir of inner grief.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"...determinedly humanistic and profoundly touching..."
—Shelf Awareness
“From often bleak material, Mahi Binebine has writeen a moving novel that is full of life and light, aided by a fine translation from the French by Lulu Norman.”
—The Independent
“Binebine describes their plight in crisp elegant prose, which manages to convey compassion but avoids sentimentality.”
—Camden Journal
“Mahi Binebine is the first Moroccan writer to give these lives an identity.”
—El Pais
“Sober and unsentimental, Welcome to Paradise is a highly moving homage to the new wretched of the earth.”
—Le Monde
“Binebine writes with humanity...His is a rare voice, genuine, subtle and wry, even as it tells of private miseries and public suffering.”
—Observer
“At once sympathetic to a people’s plight and angry with its self-delusions, this is a brave book to have written and a rich, unsettling one to read.”
—Literary Review
"I was profoundly moved by a beautiful, necessary Moroccan short novel, Welcome to Paradise ...exquisitely written and a perfect antidote to quasi-racist hysteria over asylum seekers."
—Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
"Why are illegal African emigrants so desperate to gatecrash Western Europe? The answers are explored in Mahi Binebine's terse, bleak compassionate Welcome to Paradise which is both topical and rare in tracing the phenomena to its roots: to the poverty and cruelty the emigrants are escaping."
—Financial Times
"The suspense is compelling, and the novel's lyricism assails a dehumanising anonymity. There is a Sisyphean epic unfolding in the endless effort to reach paradise and the repetitive cycle of failure and defeat."
—Guardian
"...A strong, unsparing novel..."—Booklist
“A masterful account of North Africans trying to sneak across the Straits of Gibraltar into Spain . . . A fine debut: richly atmospheric and evocative, at once a sharply narrated tale of suspense and a carefully constructed memoir of inner grief.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"...determinedly humanistic and profoundly touching..."
—Shelf Awareness
“From often bleak material, Mahi Binebine has writeen a moving novel that is full of life and light, aided by a fine translation from the French by Lulu Norman.”
—The Independent
“Binebine describes their plight in crisp elegant prose, which manages to convey compassion but avoids sentimentality.”
—Camden Journal
“Mahi Binebine is the first Moroccan writer to give these lives an identity.”
—El Pais
“Sober and unsentimental, Welcome to Paradise is a highly moving homage to the new wretched of the earth.”
—Le Monde
“Binebine writes with humanity...His is a rare voice, genuine, subtle and wry, even as it tells of private miseries and public suffering.”
—Observer
“At once sympathetic to a people’s plight and angry with its self-delusions, this is a brave book to have written and a rich, unsettling one to read.”
—Literary Review
"I was profoundly moved by a beautiful, necessary Moroccan short novel, Welcome to Paradise ...exquisitely written and a perfect antidote to quasi-racist hysteria over asylum seekers."
—Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman
"Why are illegal African emigrants so desperate to gatecrash Western Europe? The answers are explored in Mahi Binebine's terse, bleak compassionate Welcome to Paradise which is both topical and rare in tracing the phenomena to its roots: to the poverty and cruelty the emigrants are escaping."
—Financial Times
"The suspense is compelling, and the novel's lyricism assails a dehumanising anonymity. There is a Sisyphean epic unfolding in the endless effort to reach paradise and the repetitive cycle of failure and defeat."
—Guardian
Notă biografică
Mahi Binebine was born in Marrakech in 1959. He studied in Paris and taught mathematics, until he became recognized first as a painter, then as a novelist. Binebine lived in New York in the late 1990s, when his paintings began to be acquired by the Guggenheim Museum.
Descriere
Seven would-be immigrants gather one night near the Straight of Gibraltar, the waterway that separates Europe and Africa, to wait for a signal that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold in this compassionate glimpse about the difficulties facing asylum seekers.