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  • For Bread Alone

    by Mohamed Choukri ...
    Translated by Paul Bowles ...
    Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangier in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs, sex and alcohol. Proud, insolent and afraid of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Streetwise

    by Mohamed Choukri ...
    Translated by Ed Emery ...
    In his early twenties Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read and write, and joins a children's class at the local state school in Tangier. When not at school he hangs out in cafés, drinking and smoking kif. Some nights he sleeps in a doss-house, but mostly he sleeps in mosques or on the street. He befriends many 'lowlife' characters, while the café habitués help him with his Arabic ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faces

    by Mohamed Choukri ...
    Translated by Jonas Elbousty ...
    The first English translation of one of the novels that helped change modern Arab literatureMohamed Choukri, one of the most important writers of modern Moroccan literature, grew up in extreme poverty in Tangier and was illiterate until the age of twenty. After learning to read, he realized that "writing could also be a way to expose, to protest against those who have stolen my childhood, my ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tales of Tangier

    The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri

    by Mohamed Choukri ...
    Translated by Jonas Elbousty ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first timeMohamed Choukri’s vivid stories invite the reader to wander the streets of Tangier, the ancient coastal crossroads between Europe and Africa, and to meet its denizens at markets, beaches, cafés, and brothels. Choukri’s Tangier is a place where newborns are ... Read more

    $12.39 USD