The book “The Empty Amulet” completes the collection of stories by Paul Bowles. The setting is not only Morocco, but also other countries that Bowles, a passionate traveler, visited: Thailand, Mali, Sri Lanka.

“The Empty Amulet” is a collection of the writer’s latest stories. Paul Bowles became dry and very precise. His texts of recent years are modernist parables with a set of traditional themes: love, devotion, theft. But something characteristically new also appeared - illusoryness. Indeed, when you reach a point from which return is no longer possible, in principle, you can die. But life somehow goes on, and something needs to be done about it. Bowles brilliantly demonstrates his exit option. And he, as always, is merciless.