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Apparently he does not know the culture to get anything done. Woven into the narrative is the author s own journey of selfdiscovery, of learning something of his grandfather, and of coming to love this magical, multifaceted, contradictory country. February 2007 colleen mondor nonfiction the caliphs house. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his familys move from the gray skies of london to the sundrenched city of casablanca, where islamic tradition and african folklore convergeand nothing is.
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