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The Spider's House
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cheryl Smith, Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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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.
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- catherine wright
- 23-02-2024
Extraordinary prose and powerful narration
Paul Bowles is a nuanced and evocative storyteller par excellence. Insightful and unsettling, a powerful view into the universal caprices, vices and humanity of individuals
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