With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social
commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary
Morocco - and the city of Marrakech - told through the eyes of the
hapless Rahhal Laaouina, a.k.a. the Squirrel. Painfully shy, not
that bright, and not all that popular, Rahhal somehow imagines
himself a hero. With a useless degree in ancient Arabic poetry, he
finds his calling in the online world, where he discovers email,
YouTube, Facebook, and the news site Hot Maroc. Enamored of the
internet and the thrill of anonymity it allows, Rahhal opens the
Atlas Cubs Cyber Cafe, where patrons mingle virtually with
politicians, journalists, hackers, and trolls. However, Rahhal soon
finds himself mired in the dark side of the online world - one of
corruption, scandal, and deception. Longlisted for the
International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017, Hot Maroc is a
vital portrait of the challenges Moroccans, young and old, face
today. Where press freedoms are tightly controlled by government
authorities, where the police spy on, intimidate, and detain
citizens with impunity, and where adherence to traditional cultural
icons both anchors and stifles creative production, the online
world provides an alternative for the young and voiceless. In this
revolutionary novel that recalls Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao and Dave Eggers's The Circle, Adnan fixes his
lens on young Rahhal and his contemporaries as they navigate the
perilous and changing landscape of the real and virtual worlds they
inhabit.
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