The Spider's House

By (author): "Francine Prose, Paul Bowles"
Publish Date: 1955
The Spider's House
ISBN0061137030
ISBN139780061137037
AsinThe Spider's House
Original titleThe Spider's House
Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures—recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings—The Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere.