{"product_id":"9780872860827","title":"The Oblivion Seekers","description":"\u003cp\u003eStories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman—adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not long before her death Isabelle Eberhardt wrote: \"No one ever lived more from day to day or was more dependent upon chance. It is the inescapable chain of events that has brought me to this point, rather than I who have caused these things to happen.\" Her life seems haphazard, at the mercy of caprice, but her writings prove otherwise. She did not make decisions; she was impelled to take action. Her nature combined an extraordinary singlness of purpose and an equally powerful nostalgia for the unattainable.\" —Paul Bowles, preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world.\" —Cecily Mackworth, \u003ci\u003eI Came Out of France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including \u003ci\u003eNouvelles Algériennes\u003c\/i\u003e [Algerian News] (1905), \u003ci\u003eDans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam\u003c\/i\u003e [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and \u003ci\u003eLes journaliers\u003c\/i\u003e [The Day Laborers] (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: \u003ci\u003eLove with a Few Hairs\u003c\/i\u003e (novel), \u003ci\u003eThe Lemon\u003c\/i\u003e (novel), \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Who Set Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (stories), \u003ci\u003eHarmless Poisons, Blameless Sins\u003c\/i\u003e (stories), \u003ci\u003eThe Beach Café \u0026amp; Look \u0026amp; Move On\u003c\/i\u003e (autobiography), and \u003ci\u003eThe Big Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e (novella).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018851467504,"sku":"9780872860827","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872860827_p0.jpg?v=1763842065","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872860827","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}