Publisher's Synopsis
No ordinary travel book, this account of a stay in Marrakesh by one of Europe's major contemporary writers takes the reader on an inward journey that parallels and completes the outward 'record of a visit'. The city's bewildering medley of voices, reaching out across the barriers of language and culture, recorded wioth a fidelity both perceptive and discreet, becomes an invitation to meditate on the realities of life and death. In a series of sharply etched scenes, Canetti portrays the Arabs, Jews and Europeans who fill the city, the bazarrs and the streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the story tellers in the Djema el Fna, the armies of beggars ready to set upon the unwary and the rich, and portrays the simplicities of family life.
