22 Books for the Armchair Traveler
PAGE 12
The Sheltering Sky
By Paul Bowles
In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers 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.
Why Gwyneth Paltrow loves The Sheltering Sky
Next: Learning a new language in a foreign country helps one woman shed her past of mind-numbing jobs
By Paul Bowles
In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers 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.
Why Gwyneth Paltrow loves The Sheltering Sky
Next: Learning a new language in a foreign country helps one woman shed her past of mind-numbing jobs
NEXT STORY
