“The Secret Gardens of Mogador” is, according to the author, “a poetic study of the phenomenon of desire, lust.” Alberto Rui Sanchez searched all over the world for “amazing corners where nature and sensuality mix together.” All the gardens reflected in his novel are the fruit of real passion, embellished with obsessions. And in depicting passion, Rui Sanchez truly has no equal, because he documents it “with the precision with which poetry invades the boundaries of reality - with a precision inaccessible to other genres.” So, just like the padishah from the tales of “1001 Nights” - from Shaherszada, every night Hassib, the gardener’s daughter demands from the narrator a new story about another secret garden...