The Punishment (Hardcover)

An innocent man's gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the narrator's traumatic experience, written with a memoirist's immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began secretly to write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Release date:	June 2020
Authors:	Tahar Ben Jelloun
Translators:	Linda Coverdale
Dimensions:	197 x 127 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-24302-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-300-24302-2
Barcode:	9780300243024

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