{"product_id":"this-blinding-absence-of-light","title":"This Blinding Absence of Light","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThis Blinding Absence of Light\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781565847231\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe New Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eTranslation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, \u003cem\u003eThis Blinding Absence of Light\u003c\/em\u003e 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 survivors--living cadavers who had shrunk by over a foot in height--emerged from the six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held underground for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun eschewed the traditional novel format and wrote a book in the simplest of language, reaching always for the most basic of words, the most correct descriptions. The result is a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The New Press","offers":[{"title":"This Blinding Absence of Light | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Hardcover | 9781565847231 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1516457","offer_id":48753917821080,"sku":"1516457","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41Si7U1xkML.jpg?v=1774068086","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/this-blinding-absence-of-light","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}