Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowlesâs remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writingâvintage Bowles
The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowlesâs writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that countryâs 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to todayâs political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spiderâs House is perhaps Bowlesâs best, most beautifully subtle novel.