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The lemon / Mohammed Mrabet ; translated from the Moghreb and edited in collaboration with Mohammed Mrabet by Paul Bowles.
LIBRA - Special PJ7846.R3 L4 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mrabet, Mohammed, 1936-
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1986]
- Summary:
- This powerful and shocking narrative recounts the adventures of Abdeslam, a precocious twelve-year-old Moroccan boy who runs away from his home in the Rif Mountains to Tangier. There he struggles to retain his childlike innocence and native pride while striving to support himself in the corrupt and decadent international port. He takes up with a longshoreman and soon meets a rogue's gallery of friends, mostly hustlers and down-and-outers. With his characteristic brilliance and streetwise charm, Mrabet develops the novel's ambiguous theme of the necessity of violence to retain one's innocence.
- ISBN:
- 0872861813
- OCLC:
- 12949710
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