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.

The Lemon

Mohammed Mrabet

McGraw=Hill

The Beach Cafe and the Voice

Black Sparrow Press,U.S.

<p>Text: English, Arabic (translation)</p>

Five Eyes (English and Arabic Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Abdeslam Boulaich

Mohamed Choukri

Larbi Layachi

Ahmed Yacoubi

Short Stories & Anthologies

Black Sparrow Press

Fiction. Translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Mohammed Mrabet's THE CHEST is a book of nine stories and a play that channel the enduring spirit of Islam. Mrabet has written two novels and has published seven books of short stories. Flavored by his native Morocco, Mrabi's stories assume the functioning of magic within the running of daily life.

The Chest

History & Criticism

Tombouctou Books

Reference

With Much Fire in the Heart: The Letters of Mohammed Mrabet to Irving Stettner Translated by Paul Bowles

<p>Letters written 1979-1986. Biographical information and stories. Henry Miller wrote to Mrabet: "The fact that you can not read has perhaps made you a better writer than most who do read." Paul Bowles said: "I've been corresponding with Irving Stettner for several years. Everyone tells me he is a delightful man. Mrabet does write him letters. I don't "ghostwrite" them; I merely translate them as he dictates." Irving Stettner, prose writer, poet and watercolorist; friend of Henry Miller; published Stroker magazine for 30 years.</p>

With Much Fire In The Heart: The Letters Of Mohammed Mrabet To Irving Stettner Translated By Paul Bowles

Ron Papandrea

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