The Lemon
 A Bowles/Mrabet Classic: Paul Bowles discovered Mrabet when the latter was a young man living in Tangiers and the former was already an accomplished musician and writer. The elder Bowles took Mrabet under his wing and translated/edited several of his [... more]
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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
Where reason does not go: Paul Bowles lived in Morocco for a reason, he embraced the mystery of it,perhaps enjoyed losing his western self in it, and there is no solving in any easy rational way the mystery that is Paul Bowles. But this is a great [... more]
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
Paul Bowles for Beginners: "A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard." The proverb which opens this collection of stories lets us know where Bowles is coming from. Four short tales of Moroccan [... more]
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Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles
Amazon.com Review: The formidable charm of Paul Bowles radiates from every page of this unconventional memoir, which recalls Cherie Nutting's friendship with the expatriate American writer-composer during the last 13 years of his life. Nutting layers [... more]
$75.00
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The Art of the Story : An International Anthology of ...
Amazon.com Review: A reader doesn't want to love every story in an anthology. A collection of short fiction by various authors should be just that: various. We want all the stories to be admirable, but not necessarily lovable. This is how anthologies do [... more]
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Paul Bowles Reads A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
Paul Bowles for Beginners: "A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard." The proverb which opens this collection of stories lets us know where Bowles is coming from. Four short tales of Moroccan [... more]
$29.95
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The lemon;: A novel
A Bowles/Mrabet Classic: Paul Bowles discovered Mrabet when the latter was a young man living in Tangiers and the former was already an accomplished musician and writer. The elder Bowles took Mrabet under his wing and translated/edited several of his [... more]
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The Chest
A folkloristic insight into ancient attitudes.: This book is a collection of stories told to Paul Bowles by a supposedly illiterate Moroccan with a great store of oral literature in his head. These stories are presented as representative examples of [... more]
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Look and Move On
A life of sin and magic set in the shadows of Morocco.: This is a fantastic book, Mrabet is a master story teller. His lines are raw and simple, chisled directly into the paper. At times the style reminded me of Hemmingway. His works have been confused [... more]
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Love with a Few Hairs
All told, it's brilliantly told: Mrabet is a Moroccan man who literally tells stories. The American author Paul Bowles (THE SHELTERING SKY, etc.) tapes these stories and translates them into English for us. Lucky us. This debut novel (published when [... more]
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Chocolate Creams and Dollars
A priceless peice of moroccan magic: Mrabet is a fantastic story teller.So good, in fact , that when his books first came out critics claimed they were written by Paul Bowles himself. Which isn't true, Bowles merely recorded and then translated the [... more]
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The Boy Who Set the Fire
Pure Storytelling: Paul Bowles tape recorded Mrabet and other Moroccan storytellers back in the 50s, then edited and translated the tales to give to the Western reading public. The result is a large body of Arabic literature that would have pased into [... more]
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