This Blinding Absence of Light. Jelloun, Coverdale 9781565847231 New<|

This Blinding Absence Of LightAuthor(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The New Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The New Press\nISBN-13: 9781565847231, 978-1565847231\nSynopsis\nAn immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the 1994 Prix Mahgreb. Ben Jelloun crafts a horrific real-life narrative into fiction to tell the appalling story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies under the most harrowing conditions. Not until September 1991, under international pressure, was Hassan's regime forced to open these desert hellholes. A handful of survivorsliving cadavers who had shrunk by over a foot in heightemerged from the six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held underground for decades. Working.