LIVING IN YOUR LIGHT by Abdellah Taïa
It is her voice we hear in Abdellah Taïa’s stunning new novel, translated by Emma Ramadan, who won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Taïa’s last novel, A Country for Dying.
Malika’s first husband was sent by the French to fight in Indochina.
In the 1960s, in Rabat, she does everything possible to prevent her daughter Khadija from becoming a maid in a rich French woman’s villa.
The day before the death of Hassan II, a young homosexual thief, Jaâfar, enters her home and wants to kill her.
Malika recounts with rage her strategies to escape the injustices of History. To survive. To have a little space of her own.
Malika is Taïa’s mother: M'Barka Allali Taïa (1930-2010). This book is dedicated to her.
“Every Abdellah Taïa novel is written with a sense of urgency and immediacy. Here lives sensuousness and passion, a fusion of love and violence. Taïa’s language arouses the reader’s senses. Reading Living in Your Light, I felt I was hearing a dangerous secret. Taïa will seem to be whispering in your ear.” –Lynne Tillman
“Abdellah Taïa writes with great tenderness and sympathy about the intricacies and complexities of his characters' private lives. He then creates high drama from social life and sexual life and the gap between who his protagonists are and what they most desire. He is at his most brilliant in Living in Your Light.” –Colm Tóibín
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Title
Living in Your Light
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Authors / Editors
Abdellah Taïa, Emma Ramadan
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Publisher
Seven Stories
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Pages
128
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Dimensions
175 x 209 mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2025
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