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The lemon

Mohammed Mrabet ; translated from the Moghreb and edited in collaboration with Mohammed Mrabet by Paul Bowles

City Lights Books, c1986

  • : pbk

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Description

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.

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  • NCID
    BA12708005
  • ISBN
    • 0872861813
  • LCCN
    85029148
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ara
  • Place of Publication
    San Francisco
  • Pages/Volumes
    181 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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