Tahar Ben Jelloun, honey and bitterness
Portrait of the writer Tahar Ben Jelloun who publishes "Honey and bitterness" with Gallimard editions.
© Francesca Mantovani / Editions Gallimard
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
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The writer Tahar Ben Jelloun returns with a new novel "Honey and bitterness" published by Gallimard.
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It's a dark story in a white city.
A story of silence, and yet a story with several voices.
Cracked, broken voices, dead before their time, weighed down by absence, remorse and guilt, the interweaving of which draws a tragedy of the unsaid and the unspeakable.
The one holding the pen is
Tahar Ben Jelloun
, from the Académie Goncourt.
It is in his native Morocco, in Tangier, that he takes us through these destinies shattered by a "tragedy", an earthquake, an explosion which devastated everything.
A poignant novel between past and present, between intimate dramas and corruption of men and manners, between North African culture and French culture too, from which no one will emerge unscathed.
Honey and bitterness
, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, will be released on January 7 by Gallimard editions.
Report:
Marjorie Bertin
offers us a calendar that is at the same time literature, drawing and the zeitgeist, in all senses of this expression.
Its name: "Bibliom Météo" by Marthe Pequignot is published by Intervalles editions.
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