This Blinding Absence of Light
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
🏆 Winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
This Blinding Absence of Light by Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun is based on a true story. It’s about a prisoner who ends up in Tazmamart, a secret prison built in the Atlas Mountains after a failed coup against the then king, Hassan II, in 1972. Conditions were terrible at the prison and the men who ended up there spent nearly 20 years at Tazmamart while its existence was constantly denied.
