What to read after For Bread Alone?

Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangier in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs, sex and alcohol. Proud, insolent and afraid of no one, he returns to Tangier, where he is caught up in the violence of the 1952 independence riots. It is here, during a short spell in a filthy Moroccan jail, that a fellow inmate kindles Mohamed's desire to learn to read and write Classical Arabic. When he had mastered the language, he began to write stories which have been published in various Arab countries. He became a teacher and is now Professor of Arabic at the Collège Ibn Battuta in Tangier.