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| Original Title: | Cette aveuglante absence de lumière |
| Edition Language: | Arabic |
| Setting: | Morocco |
| Literary Awards: | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2006), International Dublin Literary Award (2004) |
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Paperback | Pages: 223 pages Rating: 4.28 | 9916 Users | 2034 Reviews
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| Title | : | تلك العتمة الباهرة |
| Author | : | Tahar Ben Jelloun |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | الطبعة الرابعة |
| Pages | : | Pages: 223 pages |
| Published | : | 2004 by دار الساقي (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Northern Africa. Morocco |
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Ratings: 4.28 From 9916 Users | 2034 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books تلك العتمة الباهرة
If despair was a river, this book would be a boat on it.Ben Jelloun's book is written from the perspective of Salim (although his name is referred to so infrequently I thought he was nameless for about half of the book). It's a novel full of suffering and much of what is described is made much more unpleasant by it being based on true accounts. It is not however a pure first hand account - even if it's veracity often feels as though it could be.The main focus of this novel is how the group of Moroccan cadets try to cope with the brutal conditions of
Ben Jalloun's novel is based on the story of one Aziz Binebine, who was sentenced to a 20-year stretch of time in the hellhole prison of Tazmamart for his role in the 1971 attempted coup of King Hassan II's Moroccan government. The novel is fictional, but living conditions in the underground prison (now destroyed) are not. It is a study of the human will to survive under the most unimaginable and unspeakable conditions. The book examines the story of one character, who like others who were
This Blinding Absence of Light is the painful true story of political prisoners in King Hasan IIs Morocco, who were kept in an underground prison for decades until their release in 1991. Constructed from interviews of the survivors, Ben Jelloun creates a fictional narrator that laces the physical account of being in a six-by-three-foot cell buried underground and the events that preceded their initial arrests for a failed coup attempt. Reading this book is a claustrophobic and cringe inducing
Eighteen years alone in a cell ten feet long, five feet wide and not high enough for a normal person to stand up straight. Also, no light. Ever. Prisoners were allowed to go outside only to bury one of their prisoners. An immense story of the struggle to fight the deadly enemies of hate and despair. The pain and grace of believing in an all merciful God there in that living death. The simple language of this story, the lack of drama (for lack of a better word) make this book a stylistic
This book is about the desert prisons in which King Hassan II of Morocco held political prisoners. The underground prisons had no light, hence the title of the book. Prisoners were given enough bread and water to keep them barely alive. Although it is a novel, the author wrote the book by working closely with a 18+ year survivor of the prison and includes the truth of his story underground.I just can't believe someplace like this actually existed in 1990. This story is so heartbreaking and
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