· 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 Brand: New Press, The. In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in , 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. · I recently finished reading Tahar Ben Jelloun’s This Blinding Absence Of Light, a short novel that narrates the Shikrat coup d’état from the point of view of a prisoner detained in the secret prison of Tazmamart, where dissidents were held in conditions that violated the most basic human rights: locked in underground cells that barely allowed standing, in almost total absence of light, prisoners Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
This Blinding Absence of Light from Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun is the fictionalized account of the imprisonment of a young Moroccan soldier for his involvement in a coup attempt against King Hassan II in Based on a true story, the author worked closely with a survivor to record this tale of Man's seemingly inexhaustible capacity for cruelty. In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in , 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. %T This Blinding Absence of Light %A Jelloun, Tahar ben %M French %F Coverdale, Linda %I Penguin %D [] %O paperback %G ISBN %P pp.
This Blinding Absence of Light (French: Cette aveuglante absence de lumière) is a novel by the Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated from French by Linda Coverdale. Its narrative is based on the testimony of a former inmate at Tazmamart, a Moroccan secret prison for political prisoners, with extremely harsh conditions. Based on the real experiences of a survivor of Tazmamart, This Blinding Absence of Light is a powerful condemnation of that prison and of the horrors of totalitarian prison systems everywhere. It is not, however, at all political, but rather an intensely personal story, a description of one man's endurance against despair. Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun Publisher: Penguin Group USA ISBN: X Size: MB Format: PDF, Mobi Category: Fiction Languages: en Pages: View: Get Book. The award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the.
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