This Blinding Absence of Light

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary...
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Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Language: English
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This Blinding Absence of Light by Ben Jelloun, Tahar

This Blinding Absence of Light

$76.99

This Blinding Absence of Light

$76.99
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the 1994 Prix Mahgreb. Ben Jelloun crafts a horrific real-life narrative into fiction to tell the appalling story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies under the most harrowing conditions. 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 traditional novel format and wrote a book in the simplest of language, reaching always for the most basic of words, the most correct descriptions. The result is a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.




Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher: New Press
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 195
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.76w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781565847231


Award: Literary Award - Nominee
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/04/2002 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2002 pg. 704
Booklist 05/15/2002 pg. 1573

About the Author
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 Repubblica," "El Pais," and "Panorama." His novels include "The Sacred Night," which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987, and "Corruption "(The New Press).
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