{"product_id":"spiders-house-a-novel-0061137030","title":"Spider's House: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0061137030\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bowles, Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1955, Paul Bowless remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing-vintage Bowles\"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of nationalist conspiracy and French police action, of escape and pursuit in the Arab quarter, The Spider's House reads for stretches like a first-class political thriller.\" -New York TimesThe dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowless writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that countrys 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to todays political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spiders House is perhaps Bowless best, most beautifully subtle novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51526298370336,"sku":"NEW0061137030","price":18.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51R78qJOF1L.jpg?v=1777190379","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/spiders-house-a-novel-0061137030","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}