For bread alone

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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.

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Full title :For bread alone / Mohamed Choukri ; translated and with an introduction by Paul Bowles.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Telegram
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006

Notes

Autobiographical novel.

This translation originally published: London : P. Owen, 1973. The book was originally written in (standard) Arabic, but not published until 1982 in that language.

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Description:215 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781846590108, 1846590108
oclc:ocm67873565
LC Classification:PJ7818.H6
Dewey Decimal:892.78609

Subjects

Arabic fiction Arabic fiction -- Translation into Engl… Authors, Arab Authors, Arab -- Biography. -- 20th cen… Autobiographical fiction Biographies Écrivains arabes -- Biographies. -- 20e… Fiction History Jeunesse -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -- … Manners and customs Maroc -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -- His… Morocco Morocco -- Fiction. -- History -- 20th … Morocco -- Personal narratives. -- Soci… Personal narratives Shukrī, Muḥammad Youth -- Fiction. -- Social conditions … Youth -- Social conditions