Platoon of Ruin

Abdul-Kareem Jouaity

Platoon of Ruin

When a Danish lady offers to a Moroccan municipality a small tree to be planted somewhere in the town – as an expression of gratefulness for moments of bliss that she and her late husband had the good luck to experience in this town decades ago, this was bound to create problems. In this novel the Moroccan author Abdel-Kareem Jouaitly tells us about the sinuous and mysterious paths of bureaucracy and power and the fate of the individual under them. This is a narrative at once funny and painful.

Nomination

2009 Longlist