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Guests | October 15, 2009

Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »

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The Oblivion Seekers: And Other Writings

by Isabelle Eberhardt

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Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman-adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including Nouvelles Algriennes [Algerian News] (1905), Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and Les journaliers [The Day Laborers] (1922).

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 Caf &Look &Move On (autobiography), and The Big Mirror (novella).

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ISBN:
9780872860827
Translator:
Bowles, Paul
Author:
Bowles, Paul
Author:
Eberhardt, Isabelle
Publisher:
City Lights Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Algeria
Subject:
Africa - General
Publication Date:
January 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Dimensions:
797x545x28 28
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