by Paul Bowles · ALFAGUARA: BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427485
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«Déjala que caiga» is the novel by Paul Bowles, published by Alfaguara in paperback (424 pages, in Spanish).
Dyar is a young man who leaves his job in New York to try his luck in Tangier, and soon becomes trapped in an environment of drugs, sex, and crime. The narrative portrays a varied set of characters and their misunderstandings, and works as a chronicle of initiation and a portrait of the mythical international Tangier, with alienation and decadence in the background.
Translation by Guillermo Lorenzo. Original title: «Let It Come Down». Published in 1993 in the Alfaguara/Bolsillo collection.
For readers of Paul Bowles and of narrative set in Morocco, especially those who enjoyed «El cielo protector».
Paul Frederic Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
