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Tahar Ben Jelloun

About My Mother

Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind.
By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to long-hidden secrets and stories from her past: married while still playing with dolls and widowed for the first time at the age of sixteen. Guided by these fragments, Tahar vividly conjures his mother's life in post-war Morocco, unravelling the story of a woman for whom resignation was the only way out.
Tender and compelling, About My Mother maps the beautiful, fragile and complex nature of human experience, while paying tribute to a remarkable woman and the bond between mother and son.
'Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco's greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion' Guardian
'In any language, in any culture, Tahar Ben Jelloun would be a remarkable novelist' Sunday Telegraph
'One of Morocco's most celebrated and translated writers' Asymptote
'A traditional storyteller whose tales have the status of myth… An important writer.' Times Literary Supplement
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Правовласник
Bookwire
Дата публікації оригіналу
2016
Рік виходу видання
2016
Видавництво
Telegram Books
Перекладач
Roz Schwartz Roz Schwartz
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