Zaklon od neba

Zaklon od neba

Paul Bowles

Shelter from the Sky is a cult novel originally published in 1949 by the American writer and composer Paul Bowles - based on which B. Bertolucci filmed the popular Tea in the Sahara starring John Malkovich.

It is a bestseller that has long been celebrated by both critics and the public, and which entire schools, led by beatniks - Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac - have woven into the foundation of their poetics, and enthroned Bowles as a kind of their own spiritual father. Bowles, who spent a good part of his life in North Africa, wrote in this, as well as in his other books, a timeless ode to the desert and a tender lament for "the desert as it once was".

Its protagonists, the young, emotionally and sexually estranged New York couple Port and Kit, arrive in Africa accompanied by their friend Tunner, with completely different expectations from the trip. Port, the classic existentialist anti-hero, is looking for a solution to the ungroundedness of his own existence in the already ungrounded post-war world in the desert, Kit hopes for their reunion, and Tunner is the closest to the American tourist. Their journey will also end with a completely different outcome for each of them. To say more would seriously jeopardize the pleasure of reading; pure and unadulterated.

Original title
The sheltering sky
Translation
Martina Čičin Šain
Editor
Drago Glamuzina
Dimensions
23.5 x 15.5 cm
Pages
235
Publisher
VBZ, Zagreb, 2014.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback.
Language: Croatian.
ISBN
978-9-53304-673-0

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