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