SHELTERING SKY,THE - Harper Perennial

The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the way in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travellers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky explores the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.