The Spider's House

ISBN-13: 9780141191362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str.

Paul Bowles

Opis

It is 1954. The Moroccan city of Fez rests on a knife-edge as the indigenous resistance movement agitates ever more violently against French colonial rule. As the city seems about to be engulfed by bloodshed, four English-speaking visitors are the only guests who remain at a hotel in the Moroccan section.

O autorze

Born in New York in 1910, Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco, with his wife, Jane. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a bestseller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990. Bowles's prolific career included many musical compositions, novels, collections of short stories, and books of travel, poetry, and translations.