{"product_id":"about-my-mother-paperback","title":"About My Mother - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRos Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eLulu Norman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Morocco's greatest living author.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A writer of social and moral acuteness.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A 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 Légion 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun: \u003c\/b\u003e Born in Fez, Morocco, in 1944, Tahar Ben Jelloun is an award-winning and internationally bestselling novelist, essayist, critic, and poet. Regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, he has won the Prix Goncourt (he was the first North African to win France's most prestigious literary prize) and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has also been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK. Ben Jelloun received the rank of Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 2008. He is a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePanorama\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Some of his works in English translation include \u003ci\u003eThe Blinding Lights of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Tangier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSand Child\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRacism Explained to My Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e. His fans have numbered Samuel Beckett and Roland Barthes. He lives between Paris and Tangier. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRos Schwartz: \u003c\/b\u003e With nearly 70 titles to her name, Ros Schwartz has translated a wide range of Francophone fiction and non-fiction writers including Andrée Chedid, Aziz Chouaki, Fatou Diome, Dominique Manotti (whose \u003ci\u003eLorraine Connection\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2008 International Dagger Award), and Dominique Eddé (whose novel \u003ci\u003eKite\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in the USA). In 2010 she published a new translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation) and she is currently involved in re-translating a number of titles for Penguin Classics' new Simenon edition. She was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to literature in 2009. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLulu Norman: \u003c\/b\u003e Lulu Norman has translated the works of Albert Cossery, Mahmoud Darwish, Amin Maalouf, Tahar Ben Jelloun and the songs of Serge Gainsbourg. She has also written for national newspapers and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her first translation, Mahi Binebine's \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK. Her most recent, Binebine's \u003ci\u003eHorses of God\u003c\/i\u003e, won an English PEN award in 2013, was featured among \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e's 75 Most Notable Translations and made her runner up for the Scott Montcrieff 2014 award. It was also shortlisted for 2014's Best Translated Book Award and the 2015 Dublin IMPAC Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267170451705,"sku":"9781846592010","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/5ONBKUDegT9781846592010.webp?v=1768862146","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/about-my-mother-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}