Book Info
ISBN 1 84659 010 8
Genre: Fiction
Release: July 2006
Format: 13 x 20 cm
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 169pp
Price: £9.99
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About the Author
Mohamed Choukri is one of North Africa's most controversial and widely read authors. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime, Choukri learned how to read and write at the age of twenty, after a bout in prison. He then became a teacher and writer, finally being awarded the chair of Arabic Literature at Ibn Batuta College in Tangier. Choukri died of cancer in 2003 at the age of sixty-four.
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A true document of human desperation, shattering in its impact.
-Tennessee Williams
-Tennessee Williams
Excerpts
She untied the sash of her pyjamas and pulled off the jacket like a bird getting ready to fly. The whiteness of her skin burst forth. Again she turns and looks around. She is not in a hurry. She seems to be listening for something. I am overcome by anxiety. One fig falls out of my hand, and the one in my mouth suddenly goes down my throat. The basket leans to one side, and half the figs fall out.
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