For Bread Alone (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for For Bread Alone Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan boy's coming of age in a time of extreme poverty and degradation.
Full description- Publisher: Telegram Books
- Published: 01 April 2007
- Format: Paperback 169 pages
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- Categories: Autobiography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781846590108 ISBN 10: 1846590108
- Sales rank: 205,182
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Full description for For Bread Alone
Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province, Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs, sex, and alcohol. Proud, insolent, and afraid of no-one, he returns to Tangiers, where he is caught up in the violence of the 1952 independence riots. It is here, during a short spell in a filthy Moroccan jail, that a fellow inmate kindles Mohamed's life-altering love of literature.
