This Blinding Absence of Light
$24.44
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2005
Summary
An astonishing novel of endurance and survival that won the 2004 IMPAC Award.
In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert—he was to remain there for nearly twenty years.
In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben Jelloun relates the pris…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141022826 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141022825 |
| Author: | Tahar Ben Jelloun |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 153g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. He is one of North Africa’s foremost novelists. Tahar Ben Jelloun’s novels include The Sacred Night which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987 and Corruption.
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