Beautiful and tragic true story of love and mental illness English Sheikh's greatest achievement is her ability to convey the intricate relationship
between pain and pleasure, and to suggest that teh two are inexorably linked.
This book is beautifully written.....her words are almost poetically inscribed...and the
story is an account of love gone wrong......... English I read this book on a recent trip to Marrakech, loving to read books based in settings in which I'm traveling.
The author's story is incredibly self-possessed and naive, relying on her seemingly endless bank account to save her from bad decisions. I, too, am a romantic, but Sheikh's accounting of her experiences in Morocco seem like a teenager's love affair rather than an adult's true amour. She chases men like phantoms, not seeing them for who they truly are but, instead, projecting her desires into them. When she finally realizes their true character (which was revealed to her countless times before) she simply waves her magic financial wand and whisks herself away.
I finished this book, but I found myself increasingly irritated until the very last page. English
On honeymoon in Marrakech, Nazneen Sheikh and her psychiatrist husband Cesar developed a spiritual connection to the city. After his unexpected breakdown caused their marriage to fall apart, she returned to Marrakech to write. Much remained seductive, especially Khadim, the tourist guide from her honeymoon. Little did she know that he, like Cesar, had a hidden side of his own. Moon Over Marrakech: A Memoir of Loving Too Deeply in a Foreign Land