The black crescent / Jane Johnson.

By:

Johnson, Jane, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2024, c2023.Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edDescription: 394 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781668017500 (pbk.)

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
Fiction	West Grey Neustadt Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC JOH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33321003247104

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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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