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The Sheltering Sky
February 2020: Survival
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Sheltering Sky is a story of two American travelers - Port and his wife Kit - touring Northern Africa a few years after WWII. They move from town to town, restless, not seeing and not understanding the local life. It’s a story of alienation and detachment, and of loneliness.
The writing is beautiful. The story itself - takes some strange turns that made me unable to rate it.
I loved it most when the story was going nowhere and just meandering as they did in the desert and up to the third part with Kit, I would have given it 4-5 stars. But then things get very disturbing. And even though Bowels had a point he was trying to make, the whole part about Kit was very very uncomfortable to read.