Abacus Books
7 total works
Morocco has provided the backdrop to some of Paul Bowles'' most acclaimed novels, including The Sheltering Sky. Their Heads are Green offers an account of Bowles'' life and experiences in Morocco.'
Dr Slade and his wife are on holiday in Latin America when they meet Grove and his mistress. An apparently chance encounter, it opens the door to a nightmare as the Slades are lured on a trip where the only guides are fantasy, hallucination and death.'
Nelson Dyar leaves his tame bank job in New York to work in a friend's travel agency in Tangier, only to learn that the agency is a front for illegal currency exchange.
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.