The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

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Introduction by - Paul Theroux

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 29 Jan 2004

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'A novel touched with genius ... a book of challenging power and penetration, a story of almost unbearable tensions'
Evening Standard

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After ten years of marriage, Kit and Port Moresby have drifted apart and are sexually estranged. Avoiding the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, they travel to the remote North African desert. Port hopes the journey will reunite them, but although they share similar emotions, they are divided by their conflicting outlooks on life. Kit fears the desert while Port is drawn to its beauty and remoteness. Oblivious to its dangers, he falls ill and they discover a hostile, violent world that threatens to destroy them both.

With an Introduction by Michael Hofmann