by Paul Bowles · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429737431
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«El cel protector» is the novel by Paul Bowles published by Edicions 62 in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
The story follows three American travelers who journey through the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II. Bowles portrays their encounter with an unknown and hostile world, and uses psychological tension to speak of the fragility of reason, cultural clash and human compassion.
Published in 1994 with a Catalan translation by Isabel Villaverde Acinas. Volume 89 of the collection «Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Universal Segle XX». Original title: «The Sheltering Sky» (1949).
For readers of twentieth-century classic fiction and of stories set in North Africa.
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.
