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The most recent novel from "Morocco's best living author" (The Guardian) award winning, internationally best-selling author Tahar Ben Jelloun's new novel may be the tale of an immigrant named Mohammed who has spent forty years in England and is approximately to retire. Taking inventory of his life- his commitment to his merged children and to Islam -he chooses to come back to Morocco, where he waits for his children and grandchildren in the future be with him and uses his life's savings creating the largest house in the town. A novel about kids and parents, A Structure in the Old Town reflects the often marked contrasts between new - and old -world ideals, and an immigrantis abiding quest for house.