Новинки Тахара Бенджеллуна

Merieme is ten years old. She’s a curious girl and wants to know what racism is. Her father answers all her questions, telling her why some people are racist, how we can fight their ideas and why racism is dangerous. And he explains why differences enrich us.
Издание на французском языке.

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.

Арабські революції 2010–2011 років розпочалися блискавично, непрогнозовано, спонтанно. Саме цьому феноменові присвячена книжка мароккансько-французького письменника і філософа Тахара бен Джеллуна.

Він писав її «по свіжих слідах», не чекаючи завершення революційних процесів. Тож і факти бен Джеллун добирав так, щоб вони вкладалися в його «поетичну версію» революції. Для повержених правителів автор не шкодує щонайчорніших барв. Закиди його дошкульні і влучні, а режимам він дає передовсім моральну оцінку. Для нього це однозначно битва добра і зла, світлого й темного. Тому з одного боку – жертовність і самопожертва, з іншого – страх і насильство.

The international bestseller. A novel about the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family. A novel that captures the sometimes stark contrast between old and new-world values, and an immigrant's abiding pursuit of home.

Azel, jeune étudiant marocain sans travail, a trouvé une piste plutôt sûre pour passer en Espagne. Sait-il seulement qu'aujourd'hui «partir», c'est «ne jamais revenir» ?

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners' experiences as they struggle to survive. The son of a witty, feckless courtier who disowns him, Salim tells stories to keep sane from the suras of his beloved Koran to the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire. Even in the darkest, most terrible conditions, sympathy, insight, the human quest for meaning and understanding, never desert Salim. The resulting novel is a wrenching yet exquisite celebration of the human spirit and its determination to survive. A masterpiece' Judges of the IMPAC award 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review.

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years.



In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners' experiences as they struggle to survive. The son of a witty, feckless courtier who disowns him, Salim tells stories to keep sane - from the suras of his beloved Koran to the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire. Even in the darkest, most terrible conditions, sympathy, insight, the human quest for meaning and understanding, never desert Salim. The resulting novel is a wrenching yet exquisite celebration of the human spirit and its determination to survive.



'A masterpiece' Judges of the IMPAC award



'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review

In the tradition of Marion Wright Edelman's "The Measure of Our Success," a best-selling author speaks frankly with his daughter about racism. A runaway best-seller in Europe, Tahar Ben Jelloun's Racism Explained to My Daughter has been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold more than 300,000 copies. Writing in response to his ten-year-old daughter's questions about racism, the prize-winning author has created a unique and compelling dialogue, speaking to racism as a problem not only in France, but around the world. Elegant and sensitive, "deceptively simple" (New York Times), Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents who have struggled to engage their children in discussion of this complex issue. It also includes personal essays from four leading U.S. writers who are also parents.

Роман «Священная ночь» Тахара Бенджеллуна стал событием литературной жизни конца 80-х годов и получил Гонкуровскую премию (1987). В двадцать седьмую ночь священного для мусульман месяца рамадан на всех правоверных должна снизойти милость Всемогущего, определяющего судьбу человека, дарующего ему надежду. О своей судьбе узнает и героиня романа.

Ahmed, la petite fille de L'Enfant de sable qui a été élevée comme un garçon, est désormais une vieille dame. Il lui a fallu attendre ses vingt ans avant que son père, la nuit de sa mort, ne la libère en la reconnaissant comme femme. Elle a fait depuis le douloureux apprentissage de la vie, bravant l'incompréhension d'une société rigide et le mépris de ses soeurs.

Sur une place de Marrakech, un conteur relate la troublante histoire d'Ahmed, huitième fille d'un couple qui, faute d'héritier, l'élève comme un garçon. L'enfant va grandir en découvrant sa féminité, mais choisira de vivre en homme. Il ira même jusqu'à épouser une fille délaissée, compagne de sa vertigineuse descente aux enfers. Inspiré d'un fait divers authentique, L'enfant de sable est un roman poétique sur la difficulté d'être soi.