Research Catalog

Title

Horses of god / Mahi Binebine ; translated from the French by Lulu Norman.

Author

Binebine, Mahi

Publication

London : Granta, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Norman, Lulu

Description

182 pages; 22 cm

Summary

On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine and his ten brothers grew up, in the aimless chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, and despair. The barefoot boys started their own football team-the Stars of Sidi Moumen. They played amongst the rocks, detritus, and buried skeletons of the dump but they dreamed of becoming the best football players of all time. From the grave, Yachine remembers the ugliness but also recalls his fond memories of childhood: "I'm not ashamed to tell you I was sometimes happy in that hideous squalor, on the filth of that accursed cesspit, yes, I was happy in Sidi Moumen, my home. ." Then their dreams changed. Yachine's older brother Hamid started growing a beard and attending religious meetings with Sheikh Abou Zoubeir. Week after week, the sheikh beguiled the Stars of Sidi Moumen into believing that there was a better world in the afterlife, where their faith in Allah would be rewarded. They needed only to choose between dying gloriously and together, or living disgracefully and alone. For Yachine and his brother, the choice was clear.

Uniform Title

Étoiles de Sidi Moumen. English

Alternative Title

Étoiles de Sidi Moumen.

Subject

• Young men > Morocco > Casablanca > Fiction
• Islamic fundamentalism > Fiction
• Casablanca (Morocco) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Note

• "Now an internationally released film'--Cover.
• "Originally published in French ... by Flammarion in 2010"--Title page verso.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781847085139
• 184708513X

LCCN

^^2013375769

OCLC

• 847986390
• SCSB-10694982

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library