As Rich as the King

Abigail Assor's novel "As Rich as the King" is a vibrant, sensual, subversive novel with an unforgettable heroine. It is a twisted love story and a bittersweet ode to Casablanca, exploring the gap between rich and poor and the pursuit of a life like Driss's.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 03 August 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press

Winner of the Françoise Sagan Prize,Winner of the Bookstagram Prize,Shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize for Debut Novel

With this book, Abigail Assor announces herself as one of the most distinctive voices in North African literature. This is a vibrant, sensual, subversive novel with an unforgettable heroine.

LEÏLA SLIMANI

Sarah is poor, but at least she's French, which allows her to attend Casablanca's elite high school for expats and wealthy locals. It's there that she first lays eyes on Driss. He's older, quiet, and not particularly good-looking—apart from his eyes, which are the deep green of thyme simmering in a tagine. Most importantly, he's rumored to be the richest guy in the city. She decides she wants those eyes. And she wants a life like his. But to get to Driss, she will have to cross the gaping divide that separates them and climb to the top of the city's society, from street corner merguez and chips to a mansion overlooking the ocean.

Provocative, immersive, sensual, As Rich as the King is a twisted love story and a bittersweet ode to Casablanca.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 222 x 144 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781782278900