{"product_id":"9780872860025","title":"A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality; Idir's victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker's ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others but above all with themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer.\" — \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[W]riters and artists such as Williams, Jack Kerouac, Francis Bacon, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg to Tangier. . .sought Bowles as an oracle, a writer whose work demonstrated its author as an original who saw farther, deeper, and clearer, and who refused to flinch.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles (1910-1999) was an expatriate composer, author, and translator. His other famous literary works include \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eTravels: Collected Writings 1950-1993\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eWithout Stopping\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018851172592,"sku":"9780872860025","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872860025_p0.jpg?v=1763850599","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872860025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}