The Final Bet: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction) - Softcover

Abdelilah Hamdouchi. Translated By Jonathan Smolin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9774167791 ISBN 13: 9789774167799

Publisher: Hoopoe, 2016

Synopsis

The first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English

When young and handsome Othman married Sofia sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior he found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca.

But when Sofia is brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime suspect. With his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or has he been framed by an overzealous, corrupt police force?

Born in Mekne s, Morocco in 1958, Abdelilah Hamdouchi is one of the first writers of police fiction in Arabic and a prolific, award-winning screenwriter of police thrillers, including Whitefly (AUC Press, 2016). He lives in Rabat, Morocco.

Translator Jonathan Smolin is the author of Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture (2013), and translator of Abdelilah Hamdouchi's Whitefly (AUC Press, 2016). He lives in Hanover, NH.

About this title

Review:

'Abdelilah Hamdouchi seems to have found the formula for the emergence of the Moroccan detective novel.' --Liberation Kaleidoscope

About the Author:

Born in Mekne s, Morocco in 1958, Abdelilah Hamdouchi is one of the first writers of police fiction in Arabic and a prolific, award-winning screenwriter of police thrillers, including Whitefly (AUC Press, 2016). He lives in Rabat, Morocco.

Translator Jonathan Smolin is the author of Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture (2013), and translator of Abdelilah Hamdouchi's Whitefly (AUC Press, 2016). He lives in Hanover, NH.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hoopoe
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9774167791
• ISBN 13: 9789774167799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160