Overview
Region
North Africa
Morocco
Era
Contemporary
Language
Arabic
Genre
Autobiography
About This Work
A raw autobiographical account of childhood poverty, hunger, and survival in Tangier. Learning to read at 20, crime, drugs, and the streets. Translated by Paul Bowles, it became an international sensation and was banned in Morocco for decades.
Literary Significance
One of the most uncompromising memoirs in world literature; banned in Morocco until 2000