The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
Three Americans walk into the Sahara. Not all return.
you've ever felt the pull of a place so foreign it might unmake you
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An American couple and their companion travel into the North African desert in 1947, moving further from civilization with each stop until the desert becomes something else entirely — not a backdrop but a force. Bowles had lived in Tangier for years when he wrote this. He understood that the Sahara doesn't care about your psychology or your marriage or your existential crisis. It just continues. The most honest visitor dispatch about what happens when a Westerner goes somewhere that has no interest in accommodating them.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Algeria • North Africa
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Algeria
