Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature

'This book takes on subtle dimensions as it ponders the inner meaning of new experience.' The Observer

No ordinary travel book, this account of a stay in Marrakesh by one of Europe's major contemporary writers takes the reader on an inward journey that parallels and completes the outward 'record of a visit'. The city's bewildering medley of voices, reaching out across the barriers of language and culture, recorded wioth a fidelity both perceptive and discreet, becomes an invitation to meditate on the realities of life and death.

In a series of sharply etched scenes, Canetti portrays the Arabs, Jews and Europeans who fill the city, the bazarrs and the streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the story tellers in the Djema el Fna, the armies of beggars ready to set upon the unwary and the rich, and portrays the simplicities of family life.
Elias Canetti, best known in the English-speaking world for his autobiographies, Kafka's Other Trial and for the classic Auto-da-Fe, was born in Bulgaria in 1905. His family moved to England, and then Vienna, until he settled in England in 1938. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. The Swedish Academy described his writings as being 'marked by a broad outlook and wealth of ideas and artistic power'.

Price: £7.95 (Available in UK only)
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0-7145-2580-4
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