This Blinding Absence of Light, (Paperback)

from NeedMoreShelves

"I should say that there were different kinds of silence. The silence of the night. It was a necessity for us. The silence of the companion who was slowly leaving us...The silence of blood circulating sluggishly...The silence of the shadow of memories burned to ashes...The silence of absence, the...

from bcquinnsmom

Ben Jalloun's novel is based on the story of one Aziz Binebine, who was sentenced to a 20-year stretch of time in the hellhole prison of Tazmamart for his role in the 1971 attempted coup of King Hassan II's Moroccan government. The novel is fictional, but the underground prison of Tazmamart and l...

from shawnd

This is a truly haunting tale, recounting an 18 year imprisonment for one of less than a dozen mid-level soldiers involved in an attempted coup attempt. The book is historical fiction, but tells a true tale that was secret until the 1990's when public pressure escalated that ended up forcing the ...

from TadAD

Tar Ben Jelloun listened to the stories of one of the survivors of Tazmamart and then crafted those stories into a first person account of one man's experiences during his nineteen years of incarceration in the prison. A year after a failed coup d'état, 58 men were transferred from their normal p...

from akeela

This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun. Translated by Linda Coverdale. This book is based on real events. The protagonist is one of 58 prisoners who were taken captive in the king's palace after a failed coup to oust King Hassan II of Morocco, in 1971. After two years in a convention...