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Pre-Owned The Caliph S House (Paperback) By Tahir Shah Small
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9780553816808. Pre-owned: Good condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. B-format paperback. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified. Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s married with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash cramped ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends advice he longed to fulfil his dream of finding a place bursting with life colour history and romance - somewhere far removed from London - in which to raise a family. Childhood memories of holidaying with his parents and of a grandfather he barely knew led him to Morocco and to Dar Khalifa a sprawling and with the exception of its jinns long-abandoned residence on the edge of Casablanca s shanty town that rumour had it once belonged to the city s Caliph. And so begins Tahir Shah s gloriously vivid funny affectionate and compelling account of how he and his family - aided abetted and so often hindered by a wonderful cast of larger-than-life local characters: guardians gardeners builders artisans bureacrats and police (not forgetting the jinns the spirits that haunt the house) - returned the Caliph s House to its former glory and learned to make this most exotic and alluring of countries their home. The Caliph s House is a story of home-ownership abroad - full of the attendant dramas anxieties and frustrations - but it is also much more. Woven into the narrative is the author s own journey of self-discovery of learning about a grandfather he hardly knew and of coming to love the magical multi-faceted contradictory country that is Morocco.
Pre-Owned The Caliph S House (Paperback) By Tahir Shah Small
9780553816808. Pre-owned: Good condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. B-format paperback. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified. Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s married with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash cramped ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends advice he longed to fulfil his dream of finding a place bursting with life colour history and romance - somewhere far removed from London - in which to raise a family. Childhood memories of holidaying with his parents and of a grandfather he barely knew led him to Morocco and to Dar Khalifa a sprawling and with the exception of its jinns long-abandoned residence on the edge of Casablanca s shanty town that rumour had it once belonged to the city s Caliph. And so begins Tahir Shah s gloriously vivid funny affectionate and compelling account of how he and his family - aided abetted and so often hindered by a wonderful cast of larger-than-life local characters: guardians gardeners builders artisans bureacrats and police (not forgetting the jinns the spirits that haunt the house) - returned the Caliph s House to its former glory and learned to make this most exotic and alluring of countries their home. The Caliph s House is a story of home-ownership abroad - full of the attendant dramas anxieties and frustrations - but it is also much more. Woven into the narrative is the author s own journey of self-discovery of learning about a grandfather he hardly knew and of coming to love the magical multi-faceted contradictory country that is Morocco.
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