{"product_id":"sur-ma-mere-book-tahar-ben-jelloun-9782070389810","title":"Sur ma mere","description":"\u003cp\u003eMorocco's greatest living author.--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA writer of social and moral acuteness.--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA writer of much originality.--\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLalla Fatma believes she is in Fez in 1944--where she grew up--not in Tangier in 2000, where the story begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by her fragmented memories, Ben Jelloun reimagines his mother's life in Fez at the end of the war, in the heavily ritualised world of custom and tradition that saw her married, pregnant, and widowed by sixteen. He gains privileged, painful access to her lives as daughter, sister, thrice-widowed wife--lives in which she had little say, mostly spent working in kitchens, marked by a deep religious faith and love for her family--as Alzheimer's rips them all away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA delicate portrait of a woman's slow and unwinding descent into dementia, \u003ci\u003eAbout My Mother \u003c\/i\u003emaps out the beautiful, fragile, and complex nature of human experience in prose equally tender and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning and internationally bestselling Moroccan novelist, essayist, critic, and poet. Regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, he has won the Prix Goncourt and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Ben Jelloun received the rank of Officier de la L gion d'honneur in 2008. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePanorama\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, his other works include \u003ci\u003eThe Blinding Lights of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Leaving Tangier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSand Child\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRacism Explained to My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49604814995729,"sku":"GOR003204149","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2070389812.jpg?v=1751030673","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/sur-ma-mere-buch-tahar-ben-jelloun-9782070389810","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}