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The Lemon

Mohammed Mrabet

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 181

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: City Lights Books

Release: January 01, 1986

ISBN: 0872861813

ISBN 13: 9780872861817

The Lemon

Mohammed Mrabet

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 181

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: City Lights Books

Release: January 01, 1986

ISBN: 0872861813

ISBN 13: 9780872861817

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