This Blinding Absence Of Light

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 014303572X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Blinding Absence of Light written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Salter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426564
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Night written by James Salter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most treasured relationship. A book dealer is forced to face the truth about his life. And in the title story, a translator assists his wife’s suicide, even as he performs a last act of betrayal. James Salter’ s assured style and emotional insight make him one of our most essential writers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James Salter's All That Is.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801864407
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sand Child written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252471
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punishment written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent man’s gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the author’s traumatic experience, written with a memoirist’s immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began to secretly write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781869282424
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism Explained to My Daughter written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Logan Smalley
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982140585
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book written by Logan Smalley and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs, checklists, and more, from the creators of the popular multimedia project. The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is an interactive illustrated homage to the beautiful ways in which books bring meaning to our lives and how our lives bring meaning to books. Carefully crafted in the style of a retro telephone directory, this guide offers you a variety of unique ways to connect with readers, writers, bookshops, and life-changing stories. In it, you’ll discover... -Heartfelt, anonymous voicemail messages and transcripts from real-life readers sharing unforgettable stories about their most beloved books. You’ll hear how a mother and daughter formed a bond over their love for Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, or how a reader finally felt represented after reading Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, or how two friends performed Mary Oliver’s Thirst to a grove of trees, or how Anne Frank inspired a young writer to continue journaling. -Hidden references inside fictional literary adverts like Ahab’s Whale Tours and Miss Ophelia’s Psychic Readings, and real-life literary landmarks like Maya Angelou City Park and the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum. -Lists of bookstores across the USA, state by state, plus interviews with the book lovers who run them. -Various invitations to become a part of this book by calling and leaving a bookish voicemail of your own. -And more! Quirky, nostalgic, and full of heart, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is a love letter to the stories that change us, connect us, and make us human.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1565848977
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam Explained written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Racism Explained to My Daughter" comes another model for teaching difficult subjects to children, using an accessible question-and-answer format.

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 1846592038
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book About My Mother written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to long-hidden secrets and stories from her past: married while still playing with dolls and widowed for the first time at the age of sixteen. Guided by these fragments, Tahar vividly conjures his mother's life in post-war Morocco, unravelling the story of a woman for whom resignation was the only way out. Tender and compelling, About My Mother maps the beautiful, fragile and complex nature of human experience, while paying tribute to a remarkable woman and the bond between mother and son. 'Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco's greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion' Guardian 'In any language, in any culture, Tahar Ben Jelloun would be a remarkable novelist' Sunday Telegraph 'One of Morocco's most celebrated and translated writers' Asymptote 'A traditional storyteller whose tales have the status of myth ... An important writer.' Times Literary Supplement

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194656
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Happy Marriage written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one couple - first from the husband's point of view, then from the wife's. The husband, a painter in Casablanca, has been paralyzed by a stroke at the very height of his career and becomes convinced that his marriage is the reason for his decline. Walled up within his illness and desperate to break free of a deeply destructive relationship, he finds escape in writing a secret book about his hellish marriage. When his wife finds it, she responds point by point with her own version of the facts, offering her own striking and incisive reinterpretation of their story.

Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459617711
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicler of the Winds (Large Print 16pt) written by Henning Mankell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom. One of the millions of poor people ''forced to eat life raw,'' Nelio tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights. After bandits cruelly raze his village, he joins the legions of abandoned children living in the city's streets. An act of the imagination, an effort to prove to his comrades that life must be more than mere survival, cuts short Nelio's life.