The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, "The Spider's House is perhaps Bowles's best, most beautifully subtle novel.
- ISBN10 0720612357
- ISBN13 9780720612356
- Publish Date 1 October 2004 (first published June 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English