This Blinding Absence of Light

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Published Jan. 31, 2006

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978-0-14-303572-5
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This Blinding Absence of Light (French: Cette aveuglante absence de lumière) is a 2001 novel by the Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated from French by Linda Coverdale. Its narrative is based on the testimony of a former inmate at Tazmamart, a Moroccan secret prison for political prisoners, with extremely harsh conditions.

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A dark history told through the creative eyes of the author, in the guise of one of a group of prisoners who spent over 18 years in complete darkness in Morocco. There are moments of sheer beauty throughout this book, only occasionally marred by the dissolution of disbelief when, for example, a guard's face is described, wrenching the reader away from the impenetrable darkness of the author's world. A great book nonetheless.

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