Welcome to Paradise: A Novel

by Mahi Binebine, Lulu Norman (Translator)

Overview

Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts and minds 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 deeply compassionate, Welcome to Paradise is a striking tale of human desperation and of the media-fuelled fantasies of Western life that rarely fulfil their promise yet hold a fatal allure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780602424
Publisher:	Eland Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2025
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	171
File size:	355 KB

About the Author

Mahi Binebine is a Moroccan author, painter and sculptor, born in Marrakesh in 1959. He studied mathematics in Paris and taught the subject for eight years before returning to Morocco in 2002. He is the author of six novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages between them, and his paintings are now part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Lulu Norman is a translator, editor and writer from London. Her translation of Mahi Binebine’s Horses of God (Granta, 2013) won the English PEN award for outstanding writing in translation, was runner-up for the Scott Montcrieff Prize and shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, the IMPAC and World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations.