This Blinding Absence Of Light

Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  • : 9780141022826
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : September 2005
  • : 205mm X 128mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review

Awards

Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2006.

Author description

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. He is one of North Africa's foremost novelists. Tahar Ben Jelloun's novels include The Sacred Night which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987 and Corruption.