6/1/2023 0 Comments The sheltering sky novelBefore the war, it had been Europe and the Near East, during the war the West Indies and South America. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveller, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to the other. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. They don’t have a proper itinerary, they simply move from place to place when they feel like a change of scenery because, as Port puts it, they are not tourists but travellers: Port and Kit Moresby*, a sophisticated American couple from New York, are exploring Morocco and Algeria with their friend Tunner. Part horror, part suspense (part WTF is going on?), it’s a chilling tale about strangers in a strange land and the unforeseen fates that can await the naive traveller. It’s a rather enigmatic tale about a young American couple travelling through French North Africa after the Second World War, but what begins as a typical story (albeit in an atypical setting) of a marriage on the rocks morphs into something else entirely. Fiction – paperback Flamingo Modern Classic 285 pages 1993.įirst published in 1949, The Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles‘ (1910-1999) debut novel.
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