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The lemon / Mohammed Mrabet ; translated by Paul Bowles.

Title
The lemon / Mohammed Mrabet ; translated by Paul Bowles.
Author
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1936-
Publication
Fez, Morocco : Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre, 2006.

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Additional Authors
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
Description
135 p.; 22 cm.
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. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Feb. 26, 2014).
Subject
  • Arabic literature > Morocco > Translations into English
  • Morocco > Fiction
  • Youth > Tangier > Fiction
  • Youth > Tangier > Social conditions > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Translations
Note
  • Novel.
Language (note)
  • Translated from Arabic to English.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9981829552
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library