Each year the storyteller Hassan gathers listeners
to the city square to share their recollections
of a young foreign couple who
mysteriously disappeared some time ago. As
various witnesses describe their encounters
with the couple their tales overlapping,
confirming and contradicting each other
Hassan hopes to light upon details that will
explain what happened to them, and clear his own brother of any involvement in
their disappearance.
As testimonies circle an elusive truth, the
couple take on an air as enigmatic as their
fate. But is this annual storytelling ritual a
genuine attempt to uncover the truth, or is
it intended instead to weave an ambiguous
mythology around a crime?
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An enigmatic fable in the tradition of
The Thousand and One Nights.
The New York Times
In a time when tensions between Islam
and the West are fevered,
The Storyteller
of Marrakesh offers an agreeable change
of pace.
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