The lemon
By: Mohammed Mrabet ; translated by Paul Bowles
Contributors: Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
Publisher: Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Fez, Morocco
Language: eng
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Youth; Fiction; Social conditions; Arabic literature; Translations into English
Description: 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. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Feb. 26, 2014).
Notes: Novel.

Translated from Arabic to English.