For Bread Alone - Couverture souple

Choukri, Mohamed; Bowles, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846590108 ISBN 13 : 9781846590108

Editeur : Telegram Books, 2006

Synopsis

Driven from their home in the Rif by famine, Mohamed’s family sets out for Tangier in search of a better life. But hope proves fleeting. Eight of his siblings die from malnutrition and neglect, and another is killed by their father in a violent rage.  Alone and adrift, Mohamed survives by his wits, learning to charm and steal, plunging into a heady world of drugs, sex and alcohol. Proud, insolent and afraid of no one, he returns to Tangier where he is caught up in the violence of the 1952 independence riots. During a short spell in a filthy Moroccan jail, a fellow inmate will ignite in Mohamed an enduring love of literature – a spark that will ultimately change the course of his life. A cult classic, For Bread Alone is an extraordinary tale of survival and self-discovery, offering a raw, unflinching portrait of the early years of one of the Arab world’s most celebrated and widely read authors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mohamed Choukri is one of North Africa's most controversial and widely read authors. At the age of twenty he decided to learn to read and write classical Arabic. He went on to become a teacher and writer, finally being awarded the chair of Arabic Literature at Ibn Batuta College in Tangier.

Paul Bowles, perhaps best known for his novel The Sheltering Sky, collaborated closely with Choukri on the translation of For Bread Alone. The story of Choukri's life is continued in Streetwise. Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) was a Moroccan writer and novelist, perhaps best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel, For Bread Alone. Enduring a childhood of poverty, homelessness and violence, Choukri eventually learned to read and write in prison at the age of twenty. He went on to become a teacher and writer, and was awarded the chair of Arabic Literature at Ibn Batuta College in Tangier. Translated into more than thirty languages, Choukri’s publications include Streetwise and In Tangier, which brings together Choukri’s accounts of his encounters with Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams in the 1960s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Telegram Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846590108
• ISBN 13: 9781846590108
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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