Welcome to paradise

Under the overturned boat on the beach, there was a peace that Nuarâ would not trade for anything in the world with her child. She had hidden here to avoid being discovered by the police patrol. The cries of the baby threatened to betray her and the group of refugees who were waiting together on the beach of Tangier for the smuggler's boat - so close to their goal, the fortress of Europe. One of them is the young Asûs, who recounts the stories of his fellow sufferers with wit and irony. He also tells how they, shivering from cold and fear, wait for the signal to depart and how they try to interpret the lights on the horizon - do they herald the Promised Land, or are they a trap? "Welcome to Paradise" is being reissued in a revised translation as one of Mahi Binebine's most important novels.