Reading · What Mohamed puts on his table
Before coming, read it.
Not required reading. But those who come read travel differently. Each book on this list one of us has read at least.
For before
- novel2008 · 336 pp.
The last patriarch
Najat El Hachmi
To understand the weight of the father and the Moroccan diaspora in Spain. Ramon Llull Prize.
- essay2018 · 412 pp.
Morocco before Morocco
Bernard Lugan
Three thousand years of Berber history, before Islam. Essential if you’re going to the Atlas.
- novel1949 · 288 pp.
The sheltering sky
Paul Bowles
Bowles lived 50 years in Tangier. His novel makes the Sahara desert the protagonist, not the backdrop.
- chronicle1991 · 240 pp.
Counted days
Juan Goytisolo
Goytisolo in the Marrakech medina. The finest chronicle ever written in Spanish about the city.
- chronicle2024 · 184 pp.
Nieve negra
Lorena G. Maldonado
Madrid women in the Atlas during the 2023 earthquake. Recent, generational chronicle.
- novel1973 · 224 pp.
Plain bread
Mohamed Chukri
The modern Moroccan classic. Tangier in the rawest first-person of the country’s literature.
- novel2003 · 480 pp.
The kingdom of the muladi
Antonio Gala
To understand al-Andalus and its imprint on contemporary Moroccan architecture.
For after
Year of the garden
Rosa Regàs · 1983
For those staying at a riad: what living a year within courtyard walls is like.
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