{"product_id":"the-oblivion-seekers-9780872860827","title":"The Oblivion Seekers","description":"\u003cp\u003eStories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman--adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not long before her death Isabelle Eberhardt wrote: \"No one ever lived more from day to day or was more dependent upon chance. It is the inescapable chain of events that has brought me to this point, rather than I who have caused these things to happen.\" Her life seems haphazard, at the mercy of caprice, but her writings prove otherwise. She did not make decisions; she was impelled to take action. Her nature combined an extraordinary singlness of purpose and an equally powerful nostalgia for the unattainable.\"--Paul Bowles, preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world.\"--Cecily Mackworth, \u003cem\u003eI Came Out of France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including \u003cem\u003eNouvelles Algériennes\u003c\/em\u003e [Algerian News] (1905), \u003cem\u003eDans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam\u003c\/em\u003e [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906) and \u003cem\u003eLes journaliers\u003c\/em\u003e [The Day Laborers] (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: \u003cem\u003eLove with a Few Hairs\u003c\/em\u003e (novel), \u003cem\u003eThe Lemon\u003c\/em\u003e (novel), \u003cem\u003eThe Boy Who Set Fire\u003c\/em\u003e (stories), \u003cem\u003eHarmless Poisons, Blameless Sins\u003c\/em\u003e (stories), \u003cem\u003eThe Beach Café \u0026amp; Look \u0026amp; Move On\u003c\/em\u003e (autobiography) and \u003cem\u003eThe Big Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e (novella).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662323552530,"sku":"9780872860827","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d49f13dd-c5ad-4173-bedd-ad50a0681d91.jpg?v=1733519919","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oblivion-seekers-9780872860827","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}