Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends' advice, he longed to fulfil his dream of finding a place bursting with life, colour, history and romance - somewhere far removed from London - in which to raise a family. Childhood memories of holidaying with his parents, and of a grandfather he barely knew, led him to Morocco and to 'Dar Khalifa', a sprawling and, with the exception of its jinns, long-abandoned residence on the edge of Casablanca's shanty town that, rumour had it, once belonged to the city's Caliph. And so begins Tahir Shah's gloriously vivid, funny, affectionate and compelling account of how he and his family - aided, abetted and so often hindered...
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2014-01-31
Betyg 
Oerhört rolig beskrivning av en engelsk familjs verdermödor när de flyttar till en helt annan kultur i Casablanca. Jag skrattade många gånger genom denna bok.
2012-07-11
Betyg 
Kåserier är trevliga att läsa i små doser. En hel bok med karikatyrer blir bara för mycket.
2012-06-18
Betyg
En bok som jag tyckte var jättemysig. Alla vedermödor som de upplever ihop med en stor portion humor. Det var längesedan jag läste den men har ofta tänkt tillbaka på det att den var så fin på något sätt.
