Le Jour du Roi
2010
First Published
3.32
Average Rating
186
Number of Pages
À la vie, à la mort. Khalid et Omar, deux enfants de Salé, sont les deux moitiés d’un même fruit. Pourtant, tout les oppose. Khalid le riche, Omar le pauvre. Lorsqu’on a l’âge de courir dans les dunes jusqu’à en perdre la tête, l’argent et les différences sociales n’existent pas. Cette fragile insouciance ne résistera pas à la visite du roi Hassan II.
Avg Rating
3.32
Number of Ratings
205
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3 STARS
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Author
Abdellah Taia
Author · 12 books
Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the capital. His mother M’Barka, an illiterate housewife, gives so much meaning to his days and accompanies his sleep with her nocturnal melodies. This son of a working-class district and second youngest of a household of ten children is the first Moroccan writer to publicly assume his homosexuality. Abdellah Taïa has been living in Paris since 1999, where he obtained a doctorate in Letters at La Sorbonne University while managing to write 5 books. The last one, called “an Arabian melancholia”, was just published by “Seuil” on March 6th of 2008
