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Title: oh, I wanted to like this novel...
Review: ... having lived and loved in Morocco, I have been eager to find someone who can articulate the ferocious mystery of the places I loved.But Paul Bowles -- who loved the desert, spent his life in Morocco -- gives his characters only disdain. They are people dulled by boredom, depression, loneliness... fascinating, probably, but we can't get into their heads. They speak over ours.After the death of one character, the novel becomes something else entirely. Kit's journey through the desert, her captivity in the harem of a desert man, and her descent into madness felt made-up, tacked onto the end of another story, hype, laziness on the part of a talented writer who got bored with his own work.
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