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|title=Tea at the Grand Tazi

|author=Alexandra Singer

|publisher=Legend Press

|date=March 2012

|summary=The fascinating decadence of those African countries just outside Europe, Tunisia, Morocco and so on, has been captured by numerous works of fiction, but Alexandra Singer's debut novel charts this familiar territory from a contemporary feminine perspective. This tale of her heroine Maia's descent into vice and subjection explores both the clash of cultures and of gender in the torpid heat of North Africa.

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Seeking solitude, peace to paint, and solace from a failed relationship, Maia finds a job assisting the Historian, a shadowy academic, in return for life in the centre of Marrakesh. And with her duties light, she sets off to explore her surroundings, attempting to examine the women in this culture. But as a European female she is treated as an item of sexual prey by the men, and ostracised by the women, so she finds herself isolated and alone.