Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson

Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson

"Timely and provocatively incorrect."--Oprah.com (Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read)

The two-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time National Book Award-nominated author of Le Divorce returns with a mesmerizing novel of double standards and double agents

Now, Diane Johnson brilliantly exposes the manners and morals of the cultural collision between Islam and the West. Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It's the perfect cover for her assignment for the CIA: tracing the flow of money from well-heeled donors to radical Islamic groups. While spending her days poolside among Europeans in villas staffed by maids in abayas, and her nights at lively dinner parties, Lulu observes the fragile and tense coexistence of two cultures. But beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a sinister world laced not only with double standards, but double agents.

Johnson weaves a dazzling tale in the great tradition of works about naïve Americans abroad, with a fascinating new assortment of characters as well as witty and timely observations on the political and sexual complexities between Islamic and Western culture.

Diane Johnson is the author of many novels, including Persian Nights, Health and Happiness, Laying Low, The Shadow Knows, and Burning, as well as the bestselling novel Le Divorce, which was a National Book Award finalist. For Persian Nights, she was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and she co-wrote the script for The Shining with Stanley Kubrick. She spends time in both San Francisco and Paris.

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ISBN 13	9780452295599
ISBN 10	0452295599
Title	Lulu in Marrakech
Author	Diane Johnson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2009-09-29
Number of pages	320
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