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The Bottom of the Jar

Abdellatif Laabi

出版	New York Review Books, 2013-03-19
主題	Fiction / LiteraryFiction / World Literature / Africa / West AfricaLiterary Collections / European / General
ISBN	19357446079781935744603
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TkweHrjUFnkC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Bottom of the Jar is the journey of a boy finding his footing in the heart of Fez during the 1950s, as Morocco began freeing itself from the grip of the French colonial occupation. The narrator vividly recalls his first encounters with the ebullient city, family dramas, and the joys and turbulence of his childhood. He recalls a renegade, hashish-loving uncle, who at nightfall transforms into a beloved Homer, his salt-of-the-earth mother's impassioned pleas to a Divine ear, and his father's enduring generosity. Told in the spirit of a late-night ramble among friends where hilarious anecdotes and poignant recollections flow in equal parts, Laâbi's autobiographical novel offers us a generous glimpse into the formative experiences of a great poet, whose integrity and commitment to social justice earned him an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence during Morocco's "year of lead" in The 1970s.