This Blinding Absence of Light

This Blinding Absence of Light
Title This Blinding Absence of Light PDF eBook
Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2006-01-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 014303572X

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An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies in underground cells with no light and only enough food and water to keep them lingering on the edge of death. Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun narrates the story in the simplest of language and delivers a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.

Last Night

Last Night
Title Last Night PDF eBook
Author James Salter
Publisher Vintage
Pages 129
Release 2007-12-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307426564

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Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth about his life. And in the title story, a translator assists his wife’s suicide, even as he performs a last act of betrayal. James Salter’ s assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most essential writers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James Salter's All That Is.

Racism Explained to My Daughter

Racism Explained to My Daughter
Title Racism Explained to My Daughter PDF eBook
Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher New Africa Books
Pages 48
Release 2003
Genre Prejudices in children
ISBN 9781869282424

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The Punishment

The Punishment
Title The Punishment PDF eBook
Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 162
Release 2020-04-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0300252471

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An innocent man’s gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the author’s traumatic experience, written with a memoirist’s immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began to secretly write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born.

Islam Explained

Islam Explained
Title Islam Explained PDF eBook
Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher The New Press
Pages 130
Release 2004
Genre Religion
ISBN 1565848977

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From the author of "Racism Explained to My Daughter" comes another model for teaching difficult subjects to children, using an accessible question-and-answer format.

About My Mother

About My Mother
Title About My Mother PDF eBook
Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher Saqi Books
Pages 207
Release 2016-07-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1846592038

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Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to long-hidden secrets and stories from her past: married while still playing with dolls and widowed for the first time at the age of sixteen. Guided by these fragments, Tahar vividly conjures his mother's life in post-war Morocco, unravelling the story of a woman for whom resignation was the only way out. Tender and compelling, About My Mother maps the beautiful, fragile and complex nature of human experience, while paying tribute to a remarkable woman and the bond between mother and son. 'Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco's greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion' Guardian 'In any language, in any culture, Tahar Ben Jelloun would be a remarkable novelist' Sunday Telegraph 'One of Morocco's most celebrated and translated writers' Asymptote 'A traditional storyteller whose tales have the status of myth ... An important writer.' Times Literary Supplement

The Happy Marriage

The Happy Marriage
Title The Happy Marriage PDF eBook
Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher Melville House
Pages 322
Release 2016
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1612194656

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The story of one couple - first from the husband's point of view, then from the wife's. The husband, a painter in Casablanca, has been paralyzed by a stroke at the very height of his career and becomes convinced that his marriage is the reason for his decline. Walled up within his illness and desperate to break free of a deeply destructive relationship, he finds escape in writing a secret book about his hellish marriage. When his wife finds it, she responds point by point with her own version of the facts, offering her own striking and incisive reinterpretation of their story.