The Spider's House

Name: The Spider's House
Author: Paul Bowles

by Paul Bowles

Novel set in Morocco during nationalist upheaval with competing American and French protagonists

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Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles wrote claustrophobic, existential fiction set in North Africa, where his characters encounter the void beneath Western civilization. The Sheltering Sky is a masterpiece of dread and displacement.

More by Paul Bowles

The Sheltering SkyNovel of an American couple's disintegration amid the deserts and uncertainties of North Africa
Let It Come DownNovel following a morally adrift American drug addict in the chaos of Tangier
A Delicate PreyCollection of short stories featuring violence and moral transgression in exotic locales
Up Above the WorldNovel of an American couple trapped in a decaying Mexican mansion by a hypnotic woman