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Sheltering Sky
 

Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles

The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II examines the way Americans apprehend an alien culture and the way their incomprehension destroys them. (read review)

Top tags: fiction,  africa,  morocco,  travel,  literature (all tags)

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  • Rated 5 stars

“Dated and resorts too often to the familiar. But now I know what it's like to sleep with a caravan of nomadic Arabs.”

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