In Arabic, the word 'Makbara' refers to those parts of North African cemeteries where young couples go to get away from their elders and hang out. A celebration of Amour Fou, Makbara reveals Goytisolo's deep love for Arabic culture seen as sensuous and le
A surreal roller-coaster of bitter invective and paradox, incorporating a verbal lashing for Mrs Thatcher and all the Chicago cheerleaders for the new world order. A resurrected Karl Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts
Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an ex
