"Every winter I make this trip to Marrakech to escape the bitter cold of the mountains, desert or the sea, but also because I feel the need to come to terms with what happened that night here in Jemaa, on which hung the feeling of something wrong, even when the two strangers had made their first appearance, which would prove to be the last. In fact, they are my torment. "
In the famous Jemaa el Fna, the main square overlooking the medina of Marrakech, attentive listeners and passers-by gather around for years to Hassan, a storyteller who loves to recall the story of a couple of foreigners, gone one night a few years earlier . Everyone in the Jemaa el Fna had noticed the young American, bright and beautiful, accompanied by that Indian enigmatic, everyone had been hypnotized, and now seem to see them again appear and disappear in the alleys of the medina, in flashes of images evoked and memories.
Guilty Of Murder
Because everyone has a piece to add to the story that Hassan is trying to rebuild in an attempt to unravel the mystery of quell'inspiegabile disappeared. This' that presses to exonerate his brother Mustafa Hassan, who against all logic has been found guilty of the murder of two young men. Hassan is convinced of his innocence and stubbornly tries thread: why stirs memories and eyewitness accounts of that night. But more evidence gathers, the more the reality seems to be fading, because none of the pieces match with the other, indeed, to every detail that adds further blurs the truth, the facts become more elusive. And those two strangers assume an aura fabulous and enigmatic as their fate, while the reader is led to wonder if Hassan will ever succeed in his intent or whether, with increasing anxiety, he is not part of the mystery that haunts him.
Desert Of Love
The book carries Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya gracefully from the labyrinth of the medina of Marrakech to the stretches of "desert of love", where the wind and the sand seem to swallow anything in foreign wanderers and vagabonds. "The story-tellers of Marrakesh" overturns the rules of mystery to offer a mosaic of fragments of love that defies anyone to reflect on the nature of imagination and memory, and the links with the truth and beauty. Without intellectualism, with the passage of the grand narrative and a persuasive tone of emotion, in a story that demands to be read with growing urgency to each page. The writer was born in Jamshedpur, India, and lives near New York. Of the first novel was "The Club Gabriel." With "The storyteller of Marrakech" from the beginning of a trilogy set in the Islamic world
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"The story-tellers of Marrakesh" - Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya - Mondadori - 19.50 Euro
