The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet
Translated by Paul Bowles
This powerful narrative recounts the adventures of a precocious Moroccan boy who runs away from home. With characteristic brilliance and streetwise charm, Mrabet develops the ambiguous theme of the necessity of violence in retaining innocence.
The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet
Format: Presumed 2nd trade paperback printing
Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.
Product dimensions: n/a
Publishing Info: City Lights, San Francisco, 1986
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780872861817
Translated by Paul Bowles
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.
About the Author:
Mohammed Mrabet was born in Tangier in 1936. Since meeting in the early 1960's, Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: Love with a Few Hairs (novel), The Lemon (novel), The Boy Who Set Fire (stories), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (stories), The Beach Café & Look & Move On (autobiography), and The Big Mirror (novella). After moving back to Tangier after living in New York for four years, Mrabet resumed his role as a fisherman and began painting.New arrivals at shop books
