[PDF] This Blinding Absence Of Light eBook

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : 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.

Author : James Salter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : 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.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : 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.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2016
Category : 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.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : 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

Author : Waguih Ghali
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1999-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1461663245

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Waguih Ghali was raised in Cairo but spent much of his adult life studying and working in Europe. In Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali chronicles the lives of Cairo's upper crust who, after the fall of King Farouk, are thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways. Beer in the Snooker Club was the only book written by Ghali before his suicide in 1968. "Ghali's novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor."–James Marcus of The Nation

Author : Sinan Antoon
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780872864573

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A risky and risqué prison memoir depicts the collective nightmare of life under Saddam.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780801864407

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A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.