Larbi Layachi is the pseudonym chosen by Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate storyteller working as a house servant in Tangier, Morocco. He dictated his novels, the first to be composed in the Arabic dialect Moghrebi, to the American author and translator Paul Bowles. Charhadi's novels are at once straightforward and a rich, complex look into a culture rarely seen from his uniquely leveling perspective.
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Larbi Layachi is the pseudonym chosen by Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate storyteller working as a house servant in Tangier, Morocco. He dictated his novels, the first to be composed in the Arabic dialect Moghrebi, to the American author and translator Paul Bowles. Charhadi's novels are at once straightforward and a rich, complex look into a culture rarely seen from his uniquely leveling perspective.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Signed by Larbi Layachi on the page facing the copyright page. First edition, first printing. Number 75 of 200 signed, numbered copies. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the top edge of the pages is a little discolored. Binding is tight and square. Acetate dust wrap is lightly shelf scuffed. 187pp.
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Fine with no dust jacket. 0876856326. SIGNED limited edition. Copy #198 of 200 numbered copies. Fine in quarter cloth & patterned boards in clear acetate wrapper, without jacket as issued. The author is also known as Driss ben Hamid Charhadi and wrote "A Life Full Of Holes" in 1964.; 6 1/2 X 9 1/4"; 187 pages.
