Bøger af Tahar Ben Jelloun

Ifølge islam er det tilladt en mand, som er på rejse, at indgå ægteskab af fastsat varighed for at forhindre, at han bliver fristet til at opsøge prostituerede. Man kalder det ”lystægteskab”. Amir forelsker sig i den sorte kvinde, Nabou, og tager hende med til Marokko. Her bliver hun hans anden hustru til stor forbitrelse for hans første hustru. Racismen lurer under overfladen. Romanen begynder i 1940’ernes Marokko og fortsætter frem til vor tids aktuelle strøm af migranter.

Casablanca and Tangier provide the backdrops for Corruption, and erotic tale of morality about Mourad, the last honest man in Morocco. After a lifetime of resistance, Mourad finally gives in to the demands of his materialistic wife and accepts "commissions" for his work: just one envelope stuffed with cash, then another. Ben Jelloun's compelling novel evokes the dangers of succumbing to the daily temptations of modern life, as Mourad lives the consequences of betraying his existence.

Ægteparret Mourad og Malika har barrikaderet sig fra hinanden og fra omverdenen i kælderen i huset i Tanger. Isnende kulde og tavshed har ødelagt deres forhold. Gradvis afsløres den begivenhed, der udløste krisen: Gennem datteren Samias dagbøger hører vi om en tidsskriftredaktør, som under dække af at ville udgive unge pigers digte krænker dem. Samia var 16 år, da hun mødte ham, og det fik fatale konsekvenser. Honning og Malurt skildrer et samfund, der er præget af korruption og dobbeltmoral, og blotlægger følelsen af skyld, tabet af selvagtelse, grænsen for hvad to mennesker kan magte.

In an accessible question-and-answer format, Islam Explained clarifies the main tenets of Islam, the major landmarks in Islamic history, and the current politics of Islamic fundamentalism. The book also sheds light on the key words that have come to dominate the media-terrorist, crusade, jihad, fundamentalist, fatwa-offering lucid and balanced explanations, not only for youngsters but also for the general reader.Islam Explained is at once an essential introduction to one of the world's great religions and a cry for tolerance and understanding in deeply troubled times.

Det er populært at samle bonuspoint, men kan man også samle søvnbonuspoint? Det kan bogens fortæller. Tilfældigt opdager han, at han ved at slå et menneske ihjel omsider kan sove om natten. Desværre løber han Men ikke et hvilket som helst offer. tør for søvnbonuspoint og må se sig om efter et nyt offer. Fejl i drejebogen kan få uoverskuelige følger. I Søvnløs har Tahar Ben Jelloun valgt at angribe problemet søvnløshed med morbid humor.

I bogen, Looking Writing Reading Looking, går 26 internationale forfattere i dialog med kunstværker fra Louisianas Samling. Forfatterne åbner vores øjne for værkerne med deres særlige, poetiske blik. Igennem en bred vifte af litterære genrer som digt, essay, erindringer og noter viser bogens bidrag, hvor forskelligt man kan opleve kunst. Forfatterne er her læsere af kunstværket – og herfra kan vi selv læse videre. I kunsten og i litteraturen. Bogens bidragsydere er Georgi Gospodinov, Colm Tóibín, Claudia Rankine, Richard Ford, Peter Laugesen, Chris Kraus, Sjón, Anne Carson, Roxane Gay, CAConrad, Mariana Enriquez, Hiromi Itō, Delphine de Vigan, Domenico Starnone, Yoko Tawada, Jacques Roubaud, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Eileen Myles, Tomas Espedal, Christian Kracht, Guadalupe Nettel, Anne Waldman, Matias Faldbakken, Chigozie Obioma, Péter Nádas og Tahar Ben Jelloun. I bogen omtales blandt andet værker af Francis Bacon, Asger Jorn, Henry Heerup, Alicja Kwade og mange andre.

A POWERFUL AND TIMELY PLEA FOR TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING. This is Tahar Ben Jelloun's succinct explanation of the seductions and dangers of terrorism in the modern world.

Available in English for the first time, About My Mother is an evocative portrait of a woman and a world left behind, exploring themes of love, loss, family and illness, as well as the reliability of memory and the subjugation of women.

A Moroccan who emigrated to France in 1971, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws upon his own encounters with racism along with his insights as a practicing psychologist and gifted novelist to elucidate the racial divisions that plague contemporary society.

Two epic poems focus on the bitter consequences of war and violence in the Middle East.

The classic anti-racist book-written as a letter from the writer to his daughter-from the prizewinning authorWhen Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question: "What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination?" Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages. Ben Jelloun has created a unique and compelling dialogue in which he explains difficult concepts from ghettos and genocide to slavery and anti-Semitism in language we can all understand, and adds an all-new chapter for this edition. Also included are personal essays from four prizewinning writers and educators who themselves are parents: Patricia Williams, David Mura, William Ayers, and Lisa D. Delpit. Elegant and sensitive, and available now for the first time in paperback, Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue.

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

The Impac Award-winning novel of torture and deprivation.

Forfatteren skriver på vegne af en ven om de fysiske og psykiske konsekvenser af vennens prostataoperation. Prostatakræft er den hyppigste kræftform hos mænd, og behandlingen kan have vidtgående konsekvenser for seksualiteten. Tahar Ben Jelloun tager et tabuiseret emne op og gør det uden forbehold. Et ærligt portræt af en mands nok værste mareridt.