For bread alone
Choukri, Muhammad, 1935-2006
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Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walk to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition & neglect & one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan boy's coming of age in a time of extreme poverty & degradation.
Main title:
For bread alone / Mohamed Choukri ; translated and with an introduction by Paul Bowles.
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Imprint:
London : Telegram, 2006.
Collation:
213 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Owen, 1973.Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9781846590108 (pbk)1846590108 (pbk)
Dewey class:
B CHO
LC class:
PJ7818.H6
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
321839