Fiction set in Morocco...any suggestions please?

I've just read The Tenth Gift , it's a wonderful read and I especially enjoyed the parts set in Morocco. Some was set in the present day Morocco, and other parts set in 17th century Morocco.

I wonder if there are any other books set in Morocco that you might recommend?
Thanks.

There is a sci-fi / alt history book, Stamping Butterflies, large parts of which are set in (non Sci-Fi, not really alt hostiry) 1970's Marrakech. Very evocative, in my opinion, but I am a bit of a fan of the author anyway...

Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky is set in Morocco - it's many years since I read it, but I can at least remember I read it, so that's probably something of a recommendation!

mcdonagh, know what you mean & that is indeed a recommendation. Not sure that Morocco is mentioned as the setting in it, though. Fee fee, Bowles moved to Morocco & did write books--w. help from his apparently fetching inside source at times--set there, but he didn't write swash-buckling falling-in-love stuff, which is what book you mention seems to be. Reading yr post I could think of several good books set in the region that are too literary, but if you post a request for books like Tenth Gift set in North Africa (as opposed to Morocco) you might have more replies--dunno, but good luck with it.

Hello
Try 'The Alchemist' by Paoli Coelho, set om Morocco and Andalucia. Very evocative of both locations, and a very low psycho-babble quotient for Coelho.

I've never really read sci-fi but your recommendation looks very interesting..thank you.

Thank you Mcdonagh, The Sheltering Sky certainly looks like something I'd like to read and as you say, that you remember it after some time is definately a recommendation!

Probably shouldn't post this as I haven't read it yet, but I'm just pleased that I can think of a book set in Morocco...

Laurie R King's latest in her Mary Russell series 'The Pirate King' is partly set in Morocco in the 1920s. But as I haven't read it yet, I don't know how much of the book takes place there: it's just I remember her blogging about the research she was doing. And I don't know whether the book would read well as a stand alone. (Mary Russell meets and befriends Sherlock Holmes during WW1 in the first book 'The Beekeeper's Apprentice' and the series runs from there.)
I've read every book in the series except this, so I could recommend the series as a whole, but I don't know about this book in particular.

Monica, it doesn't have to be swash-buckling falling in love stuff, I just fell in love with the idea of Morocco and how life is lived there and want to read more. I would be pleased to read any recommendations set in the region, please let me know your suggestions, I'm quite happy to read your literary recommendations.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Thanks Jen, Laurie R King is a new name for me. I'm going to have a look at her now, thanks again.

Don't know if Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud would be of interest. It is an autobiographical novel of her hippy childhood in Morocco.

This is not fiction, mainly observations, but you might like it:
The Voices of Marrakesh

(and N A Spencer has already mentioned the one I was thinking of originally).

The Spider's House, Paul Bowles.

Have you tried Moroccan Traffic by Dorothy Dunnett?
It is basically a detection story, but with a lot of humour and plenty of local colour.

Thank you for your further suggestions..I rarely read non fiction, but these suggestions have made me think maybe I should..so I will! Thanks again.

Diane, that one looks good..thanks.

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Paul Bowles - Camels in the Courtyard
Mohammed Mrabet & Paul Bowles - The Boy who set the fire

Paul Bowles collected traditional Moroccan stories told by Moroccan story tellers.

Fee fee, The Scorpion by Albert Memmi is by a Tunisian and, though I didn't always find it easy going the descriptions of his childhood home by the sea are even more memorable than the complaints about his publisher at the book's beginning.

The Fascination of Evil by Florien Zeller is on other hand never a bit of a slog, enjoyable, and evocative of north Africa--Egypt, I think--but it's written by European & about Europeans' unwillingness or inability to understand a place in which they're only tourists. It's good, & least literary of these suggestions. My favourite of these three though is The Age of Flowers by Umberto Pasti; again, Europeans/European colony in Tunis with vivid, sometimes dream-like & often decadent goings-on. Shall have look at shelves tomorrow to see can I find more. Don't do shelves-searching during night-cap.

The Salt Road & also The Sultan's Wife - Jane Johnson
A Night in Casablanca - D L Ames
The Book of Seven Delights - Bertina Krahn
White Gold & also Lords of the Atlas - Gavin Maxwell
A Street in Maarrakech - Elisabeth Fernea
The Spiders House - Paul Bowler (Bowles?)
Maroc - Daniel Easterman
Amiz - Tom Gamble
Hideous Kinky - Esther Frued
The Drifters - James Michener
Zahra's Ladder - Pamela Windoo

"The Sheltering Sky" is a WONDERFUL book (all right, I loved it)
Almost everything in Tangier in "Let it Come Down", also by Paul Bowles

genius ........

Yes,
"A Palace in the Old Village" by Tahar Ben Jelloun "
Story about a Moroccan immigrant who returns to his homeland after spending 40 years in France.

Thank you all for your suggestions, some really interesting books here. Much appreciated, thank you for taking the time.

I think this one is set in Morocco as well:
Secret Son