Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Suspense
  3. Thrillers

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

Up Above the World : A Novel

On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. The girl, his mistress, is very young and very beautiful. Sitting there, watching the sunset, the Slades seem to be enjoying the sort of fortunate chance encounter that travelers cherish. But amid the civilities and small talk, the host's casual remark to the American woman proves prophetic: ""It's not exactly what you think.""

Masterfully -- with the poetic control that has always characterized his work -- Paul Bowles leads the reader beneath the surface of hospitality and luxury into a tortuous maze of human relationships and shifting moods, until what seems at first a merely casual encounter is seen to be one rooted in viciousness and horror.


Author:

  • Paul Bowles

Narrator:

  • Raphael Corkhill

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 6 h 34 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Suspense
  • Thrillers

More by Paul Bowles

Skip the list
  1. The Sheltering Sky : A Novel

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  2. The Spider's House : A Novel

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  3. A Distant Episode

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  4. Days

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  5. Without Stopping

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  6. Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  7. Points in Time

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  8. Travels

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  9. The Delicate Prey

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  10. Let It Come Down : A Novel

    Paul Bowles

    audiobook
  11. Por encima del mundo

    Paul Bowles

    book

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Burning Angel

    James Lee Burke

    audiobook
  2. The Night Always Comes : A Novel

    Willy Vlautin

    audiobook
  3. It's Not Nothing

    Courtney Denelle

    audiobook
  4. The Other Side of Night

    Adam Hamdy

    audiobook
  5. The Single Girl's Calendar

    Erin Green

    audiobook
  6. The Girls Are Good

    Ilaria Bernardini

    audiobook
  7. Owner of a Lonely Heart

    Eva Carter

    audiobook
  8. Marple: Twelve New Stories

    Agatha Christie, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware

    audiobook
  9. No One Will Miss Her : A Novel

    Kat Rosenfield

    audiobook
  10. Somebody Loves You

    Mona Arshi

    audiobook
  11. Do No Harm : A skilled surgeon makes the best murderer . . .

    Jack Jordan

    audiobookbook
  12. Shmutz : A Novel

    Felicia Berliner

    audiobookbook

  • 15 books

    Paul Bowles

    Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5