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Book

I'll take the fire

Call Number

  • FICTION SLIM (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York, NY : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.

Physical Description

xii, 354 pages ; 20 cm.

Summary

Mia Daoud yearns to be free. A child of Morocco in the politically and socially turbulent 1980s, she flees her family and her homeland to seek her own place in the world. Years later, she finds it as a famous author, only for a bout with a virus to jeopardize her memory and the novel she wants to write about her past. When she's advised to retrace her history to reclaim her present, Mia journeys around the world in search of herself, from Casablanca to Paris to New York, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, and finally back to her grandparents' farm in Morocco, where her story first began.

Notes

"Originally published in French as J'emporterai le feu by Editions Gallimard, Paris"--Title page verso.

Subjects

Added Authors

Sam Taylor