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Streetwise
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Streetwise Paperback - 2007

by Mohamed Choukri; Paul Bowles (Translator)


From the rear cover

This is the story of Mohamed Choukri and shows how throughout his trials and vicissitudes, two things shine through: Choukri's determination to use literacy to rise above the cruel hand fate has dealt him; and his compassion for the normally despised human beings who share this life of 'the lowest of the low.'

Details

  • Title Streetwise
  • Author Mohamed Choukri; Paul Bowles (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition thus
  • Pages 222
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Telegram Books, London/ Berkeley CA
  • Date August 2007
  • Features Glossary
  • ISBN 9781846590276 / 1846590272
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.89 x 5.21 x 0.71 in (20.04 x 13.23 x 1.80 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003) is one of North Africa's most controversial and widely read authors. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime, Choukri learned how to read and write at the age of twenty. He then became a teacher and writer, finally being awarded the chair of Arabic Literature at Ibn Batuta College in Tangier. Paul Bowles is a distinguished writer and translator who is best known for his novel The Sheltering Sky.