Nonfiction. In his new, non-fiction book, THE JEALOUS LOVER, Larbi Layachi unsparingly depicts his years as a teenager in Tangier, Morocco. Banished by his stepfather to sleep in a leaky shed where he all but drowns, the boy leaves home. At twelve he sets out on his own, resting at night on cafe floors, and fishing for a living on the beach. By turns, he smuggles contraband, meets a Spanish girl and falls in love, serves two terms in Tangier jails, oversees a beach cafe, and vends black market cigarettes in alleys. The troubled life he leads and the men he meets combine to form a vivid tale.
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A forgotten classic of spare, powerful writing.,
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If you've heard of Larbi Layachi (AKA Driss be Hamed Charhadi) it is most likely in reference to his association with Paul Bowles. True, Bowles transcribed "A Life Full of Holes," giving the prose his own distinctive slant, but this book (sans Bowles) proves that Layachi was no mere Moroccan yokel riding on his coat-tails. Layachi's narrative voice is so genuinely deadpan, so detached from the world, that this should be required reading for the current crop American novelists, with their tendencies towards ornate language-games, sentimentalism, and endless irony. He is able to describe scenes of horrible brutality as if they are utterly normal, just as another forgotten great, Charles Willeford, is. No daily activity is considered irrelevant. Layachi doesn't use flashbacks or any of that modern Western garbage, his narratives run forward without ever looking back-- connecting with the past rarely and erratically, just as in real life.Find out why it took so long for people to start writing down language-- get this book and see the awe-inspiring complexity of a story entirely in one man's head.
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