This Blinding Absence of Light - Softcover

Ben Jelloun, Tahar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014303572X ISBN 13: 9780143035725

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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Rare Book

Review:

'A life-affirming work of astonishing authority' -- Independent

'Magnificent' -- Guardian

'Unforgettable ... one of the great novels of incarceration and endurance' -- Independent

‘A gripping though unsettling novel . . . shocking for its lack of sentimentality’ -- Financial Times

‘A joy to read ... magnificent’ -- Guardian

‘A magisterial work ... one of the most beautiful, humbling and important books most of us are likely to read’ -- Irish Times

‘An unforgettable work of art ... this is one of the great novels of incarceration and endurance’ -- Independent

‘One of the most beautiful, humbling and important books most of us are likely ever to read’ -- Irish Times

‘Remarkable ... belongs in the annals of prison fiction along with Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ -- Scotsman

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 014303572X
• ISBN 13: 9780143035725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208