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For Bread Alone
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For Bread Alone

Mohammed Choukri

1973
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A raw autobiography of a childhood in Moroccan poverty.

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He learned to read at twenty and wrote the most unflinching autobiography in Arabic literature. For Bread Alone, long banned for its sex, drugs and hunger, became a cult classic.

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