Weary of her lover’s insensitivity, Hassiba, banishes him from her most intimate garden and imposes a challenge on him: a night of passion in exchange for a description of one of the secret gardens of the ancient Moroccan city of Mogador, each a unique tribute to the cultivation of passion and desire.
Desperate to regain paradise lost, her lover takes on the role of “a new Scheherezade,” searching for gardens in the most unexpected corners of the city and transforming himself into a voice so that he may once again recreate the magical moment when paradise was first discovered in the body of the beloved.
“Ruy-Sánchez’s works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words . . . His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.” — Octavio Paz
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez is a Mexican writer and author of numerous books of fiction and, non-fiction. His novel, Mogador, was published by City Lights in 1992.
TRANSLATED BY RHONDA DAHL BUCHANAN
Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is the Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
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