Books set in Morocco

A young Moroccan from Tangier washes up in Barcelona’s Raval as the Arab Spring begins.

Young men in a Tangier café stare across the strait at Spain, and one gets there.

An old man, alone in his flat on a windy day, waits for death and remembers Tangier.

Hunger, a brutal father and the streets of Tangier, where a boy learns to read at twenty.

A New York bank clerk drifts into money-changing, smuggling and kif in the Tangier zone.

A girl in a Fez harem of the 1940s, where the women dream of the world outside.

1488–1492: a boy’s childhood in Granada, until the city falls and his family flees.

A son rises up against his tyrant father, the Lord, in a Fez household.

An American novelist crosses wartime Morocco in 1917, from the souks of Fez to Marrakech.

An Alsatian bride follows her Moroccan officer to a hard farm near Meknès after the war.

Boys from the Sidi Moumen slum of Casablanca, recruited for the bombings of May 2003.

A grandson visits one of the last Jews of Marrakech, kept awake by a noise only she hears.

Two small girls and their hippie mother in 1960s Marrakech, the girls longing for home.

Camels, storytellers, beggars and the blind: a writer listens to Marrakesh in 1954.