The Journey is the story of a young Moroccan, son of a single mother, dreaming of relationships, and trying to discover a way of supporting himself. Blocked by poverty and a moral code which does not distinguish between ignorance and innocence, he conceives a fatal dream of going to another country to make a better life.

It gives a picture of young manhood in Islamic society, of a kind we have also experienced from Orhan Pamuk. Simple and deeply moving, it offers a valuable insight into a culture both near and far from our own: at once innocent and neo-conservative, hopeful and without help. With increasing mobility of population and ever-closer economic ties, this is an understanding we urgently need.

Mohammed Benouarrek's first novel has a wonderful freshness interwoven with compelling reality.

Third Eye publishes books that make you see things differently.

New perspectives, perceiving life from other viewpoints. Our first is JUSTIN AVENEER, a dazzling inverted pastiche of De Sade set in a world where women treat men as work objects in all the ways that, historically, men have treated women as sex objects.

Straight after reading this manuscript, Angela Carter set to and wrote her Passion of New Eve, followed by Sadeian Woman. Feminists and humanists everywhere will respond strongly to the dark mirror it holds up to exploitation of one sex by another.

Read more about the fascinating connections between Justin Aveneer and Angela Carter's Passion Of New Eve