The black crescent / Jane Johnson.

By:

Johnson, Jane, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2024Copyright date: �2023Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada editionDescription: 394 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781668017500 (pbk.)
1668017504

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

FIC 23

Summary: Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding all manner of treasure: lost objects, hidden water. But instead, Hamou finds a body. This unsolved murder instils in Hamou a deep desire for order and justice: he trains as an officer of the law, working for the French in Casablanca. But the city is trapped in the turmoil of the nationalist uprising, and soon he will be forced to choose between all he knows and all he loves...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library New Books	Fiction	FIC Johns (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	10/17/2024	24180

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Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding all manner of treasure: lost objects, hidden water. But instead, Hamou finds a body. This unsolved murder instils in Hamou a deep desire for order and justice: he trains as an officer of the law, working for the French in Casablanca. But the city is trapped in the turmoil of the nationalist uprising, and soon he will be forced to choose between all he knows and all he loves...

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