Recently graduated from Oxford University, idealistic and headstrong Jeremy Ashland obtains a job teaching English at a language school in the Casablanca of the 1960s. Determined to be accepted as an enlightened foreigner at a time when Moroccan society is emerging from the trauma of colonialism, he plunges dangerously into local and expatriate circles. 'Mauresque' is also the story of Jeremy's forbidden love for an upper-class Moroccan girl with revolutionary aspirations - a relationship that mirrors the tensions between Moroccans themselves in their search for a new nationhood. Evocative, stylistic and wide-ranging, Mauresque immerses the reader in a world of clandestine relationships, political intrigue, drug smuggling, murder and sorcery.

About the Author
After several trips to North Africa during his University vacations, Anthony Gladstone-Thompson founded the British Centre in Casablanca in 1969. After seven years he returned to London to run his own language school, while raising a family and bringing Mauresque to fruiition. He now lives in East Sussex and France, while continuing to travel extensively in Morocco whenever possible. He has also translated the Moroccan travel writings of the French brothers Jerome and Jean Tharaud, published by Eland as 'A Moroccan Trilogy'.


Book Information
ISBN 9781853982019
Author Anthony Gladstone-Thompson
Format Paperback
Imprint Ashgrove Publishing Ltd
Publisher Ashgrove Publishing Ltd