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- ISBN 9781780602356
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that will take them to a new life in Europe. As we shelter with them in the darkness, we hear of the cruelty, misfortune and grinding poverty which has compelled them here, to pit themselves against the dangers of the sea and the coastguards who patrol it. Tense, dramatic and blackly compassionate, Welcome to Paradise is a striking tale of human desperation and of the media-fuelled fantasies of Western life that hold a fatal allure.
Mahi Binebine is a writer, painter and sculptor. Mahi was born in Marrakech in 1959. He studied mathematics in Paris and taught the subject for eight years. He lived in New York between 1994 and 1999 when his paintings began to be acquired by the Guggenheim Museum. He returned to Morocco in 2002 and now lives in Marrakech with his family. Mahi has written six novels which have now been translated into more than a dozen languages.
