Tahar Ben Jelloun

Un bambino fragile, che sogna la vita e guarda con occhi colmi di meraviglia il mondo intorno a sé, cresce con il dono della fantasia, sensibile ai sentimenti e alle emozioni. Con la stessa intensità, sente i luoghi che attraversa: Fès, la sua città natale, la bianca Tétouan chiusa fra le montagne; Tangeri e Casablanca, le città della vita adulta, porte socchiuse verso l'Europa, e infine Parigi, dove arriverà da studente, innamorato timido...

Tanger, au début des années 2000. Un pédophile abuse de jeunes filles en leur faisant miroiter la publication de leurs poèmes dans son journal. Il agit en toute impunité, sans éveiller le moindre soupçon. Ce roman raconte l'histoire d'une de ses victimes, Samia, une jeune fille de seize ans. Elle ne se confie pas à ses parents, mais consigne tout dans son journal intime, qu'ils découvriront bien après son suicide. À partir de cette tragédie,...

"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...

"In Tangiers in the late 1950s, two teenagers, Mamed and Ali, strike up an intense friendship that will last a lifetime. But lurking just beneath the surface is a deep, unspoken jealousy in danger of destroying them both."--Cover

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.

Cette histoire est arrivée dans un tout petit village d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Mon village n'a pas de nom. On l'appelle "le village". Moi, je l'appelle "le néant". Aujourd'hui, je suis le nouvel instituteur de mon village. Et chaque jour, j'ai de moins en moins d'élèves. Ils disparaissent un ci un dans une étrange bâtisse blanche, d'où ils ressortent avec de l'argent. Il faut que j'aille les chercher pour les ramener à l'école. This story takes...

"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...

""Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco's greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion." --The Guardian In The Happy Marriage, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun tells the story of one couple--first from the husband's point of view, then from the wife's--just as legal reforms are about to change women's rights forever. The husband, a painter in Casablanca, has been...