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Tahar Ben Jelloun

This Blinding Absence of Light

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In this deeply moving novel, says L'Express, Tahar Ben Jelloun has chosen imagination as the response to inhumanity - the art of writing as the ultimate liberation. He tells the appalling story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies. Not until September 1991, under international pressure, was Hassan's regime forced to open these desert hellholes. A handful of survivors - living cadavers who had shrunk by over a foot in height - emerged from the six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held underground for decades. Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun eschewed the… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Coverdale, Linda (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-56584-723-1
  • EAN: 9781565847231
  • Produktnummer: 19418072
  • Verlag: New Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 195 S.
  • Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.2 cm 381 g
  • Gewicht: 381

Über den Autor


Winner of the 1994 Prix Maghreb, Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. A novelist, essayist, critic, and poet, he is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Répubblica, El País, and Panorama. His novels include The Sacred Night, which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987, and Corruption (The New Press).

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