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Stories Set in Marrakech
Marrakech sits on a plain below the Atlas Mountains in central Morocco, walled with palm groves outside. Founded in 1070 and reshaped under the French protectorate, it kept storytellers in its square while becoming a stop for caravans and package tours. Our Man in Marrakesh sends spies through its lanes, while Daughter of Smoke & Bone carries its name to fantasy readers. Open Marrakech on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Marrakech on the StoryTerra map9 famous stories set in Marrakech
Live snapshot of the top 9 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 6 books, 2 movies and 1 game set in Marrakesh.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously…
Exit West
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature…
Hitman World of Assassination
Become Agent 47 in the ultimate spy-thriller adventure across more than 20 locations.Hitman World of Assassination brings together the best of Hitman, Hitman 2 and Hitman 3 including the main campaign, contracts mode,…
Our Man in Marrakesh
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Five swindle stories taking place in five international cities: Tokyo Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples Italy ("The…
In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. Now Shah takes us deeper into the…
Hideous Kinky
The debut novel from the author of Summer at Gaglow, called "a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination" by the New York Times Book Review. Escaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined…
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the…
The Sand Child
In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan…
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