The Storyteller of Marrakesh
December 16, 2010 Thursday AT 3PM CT

 
 
Earlier this fall, travel writer Raphael Kadushin whetted our appetite for the exotic in describing his trip to the Djamaa, the fabled medina of Marrakesh. Now, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, an Indian novelist, takes us deeper in his novel based on the ancient art of storytelling as it's still practiced by Hassan, the storyteller, as he gathers his listeners in the Djamaa.

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  • Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, author of The Storyteller of Marrakesh, the first in an ambitious cycle of novels set in the Islamic world with an intent to de-mystify "the other."
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