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The Spider's House

A Novel

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The Spider's House

By: Paul Bowles
Narrated by: Cheryl Smith, Raphael Corkhill
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Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles’s remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing—vintage Bowles

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.

©1955 Paul Bowles (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Political Science Fiction Middle East

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