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Lulu in Marrakech

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Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech hoping to rekindle her romance with businessman Ian Drumm. It's the perfect cover for her assignment with the CIA: tracing the flow of money from donors to radical Islamic groups. As she navigates the complex interface of East and West, Lulu stumbles into unforeseen intrigues: a young Muslim girl, Suma, is on the run from her brother intent on an honour killing; and a beautiful Saudi woman, Gazi, is vying for Ian's love, leaving her husband in a desperate bid to escape her repressive society. The more Lulu immerses herself in the workings of Marrakech, the more questions emerge as beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced with double standards as well as double agents.

Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2009)

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Johnson, Diane

▪ American author and academic
in full  Diane Lain Johnson Murray 
born April 28, 1934, Moline, Ill., U.S.

      American writer and academic, best known for worldly and satiric novels set in California that portray contemporary women in crisis.

      Johnson was educated at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri; the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (B.A., 1957); and the University of California (M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1968). From 1968 through 1987 she was a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

      The heroine of her first novel, Fair Game (1965), conscious of having been exploited by a series of lovers, eventually finds a man who will foster her desire to grow into a more complete person. In Loving Hands at Home (1968) a woman leaves her Mormon husband and his family, with whom she feels no spiritual kinship, but fails to succeed on her own in the wider world. Burning (1971) satirizes the southern California way of life. The Shadow Knows (1974) concerns a divorced mother whose secure life is shattered when she becomes convinced that she is marked for violence. Lying Low (1978) chronicles four days in the lives of three markedly different women. Johnson's later novels include Persian Nights (1987) and Health and Happiness (1990).

      Johnson wrote a well-received novelistic biography of writer George Meredith (Meredith, George)'s first wife, The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives (1972), and the biography Dashiell Hammett: A Life (1983). She also wrote screenplays, including The Shining (1980; with Stanley Kubrick (Kubrick, Stanley)), and a collection of essays, Terrorists and Novelists (1982).

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