"The Spider's House" by Bowles Paperback NEW 2006 ed.

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The many factions in Fez - the French and their hated rule and maintenance of a false monarch on the throne; the pitiless Iztiqulal; the Islamic heritage of the true believers - these are the background for the story of young Amar, who has the gift of the baraka, and the point at which his life touches on those of John Stenham, an American writer, and Lee Veyron, also American and restlessly seeking she knows not what. Amar has stayed incurious, in a deep freeze of isolation of his Koranic laws; he wakens slowly as crisis mounts and resistance strengthens; his meeting with Stenham and Lee takes him out of his quarters to theirs, and their prying into his feelings and opinions. When violence erupts, they flee with Amar on a pilgrimage to a local celebration and escape the city's violence; Lee ends her search; Amar is the means of helping a propagandist evade the police and comes back to Stenham and Lee, hoping to be taken to Meknes - but they refuse. A complex canvas of ideological argumentation is highlighted with pictures of the feudal city of Fez, of Moslem preaching and practice, of a static world coming out of insularity, but it is hampered by a tortured prolongation of the mouthings of misfits. Followers of Bowles' work will find his international thinking has dimmed his sometimes brilliance of writing, to a point of near-fatigue. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures—recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings—The Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere.