For Bread Alone

Synopsis of For Bread Alone

«For Bread Alone» is the autobiography of Mohamed Choukri, published by Telegram in paperback (213 pages, in English).

Autobiography of Mohamed Choukri that recounts his childhood and youth in Morocco: the flight from hunger in the Rif, paternal violence, survival in the streets of Tangier, and the encounter with poetry during a stay in prison. A work censored in the Arab world, translated and introduced by Paul Bowles.

First part of Mohamed Choukri's autobiography, continued in «Streetwise»; the original Arabic title is «Al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī».

Will interest readers of autobiographical literature and 20th-century classics, as well as those who study Moroccan narrative and the work of Paul Bowles.