Platoon of Ruin
Abdul-Kareem Jouaity
When a Danish lady offers to a Moroccan municipality a small tree to be planted somewhere in the town – as an expression of gratefulness for moments of bliss that she and her late husband had the good luck to experience in this town decades ago, this was bound to create problems. In this novel the Moroccan author Abdel-Kareem Jouaitly tells us about the sinuous and mysterious paths of bureaucracy and power and the fate of the individual under them. This is a narrative at once funny and painful.
Nomination
2009 Longlist
Abdul-Kareem Jouaity
Country of origin Morocco
About the author
Abdul-Kareem Jouaity was born in Beni Mellal, capital of the Tadla-Azilal province of Morocco, in 1962 and currently works as director of the Ministry of Culture for this region. He is the author of six novels: Night of the Sun (1992) winner of the Moroccan Writers’ Union Prize for Young Authors, Pomegranate of the Insane (1998), City of Brass (2004), Celebrations of Death (1996) translated into French, Yellow Morella (2002) and Platoon of Ruin (2007), IPAF-longlisted in 2009.