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This Blinding Absence of Light
This Blinding Absence of Light | Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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.
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Oumaaa

La nuit ne tombait pas, comme on dit, elle était là, tout le temps ; reine de nos souffrances, elle les exposait à notre sensibilité

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plemmdog
This Blinding Absence of Light | Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I‘m halfway through this. It‘s intense, so far. I picked it up after reading it was one of John Green‘s favorite novels. During this pandemic, I seem to vacillate between ponderous novels which tell me things could be so much worse, and complete fluff...

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TheKidUpstairs
This Blinding Absence of Light | Tahar Ben Jelloun
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A couple from my shelves set in #africa
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@Cinfhen

Cinfhen Need to check out these titles 8y
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