Secret Son
  • Published: 6 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141042732
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $29.99

Secret Son

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4 May 2009
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6 Jul 2011
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Tipped by Gary Shteyngart and Junot Diaz, a modern-day Great Expectations set in Morroco for readers of Half of a Yellow Sun

When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...

Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape - until, one day, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive, and whisks him from the slums into the luxurious life of Casablanca's elite. But as he leaves the poverty of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly un-glittering reality...
  • Published: 6 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141042732
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Laila Lalami

Moroccan born Laila Lalami is known internationally for her blog, www.moorishgirl.com, and is author of the much-acclaimed and widely-translated short story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing and she is the recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts grant and a Fulbright Fellowship. Lalami's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe amongst others.

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