{"product_id":"9780253058799","title":"Casablanca Story (Global African Voices)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Following on from Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane shifts his geographical focus to outline a vision that encompasses both north and sub-Saharan Africans: Africa is moving forward and is the equal of the other continents or, to put it another way, Africa is no better than they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Casablanca Story was named in the Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2022 list.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49096109621475,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780253058799-1.jpg?v=1788329759","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780253058799","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}