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Vivre à ta lumière
2022
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Trois moments dans la vie de Malika, une femme marocaine de la campagne. De 1954 à 1999. De la colonisation française à la mort du roi Hassan II. Son premier mari est envoyé par les Français combattre en Indochine. Dans les années 60, à Rabat, elle fait tout pour empêcher sa fille Khadija de devenir bonne dans la villa de Monique. La veille du décès de Hassan II, un jeune voleur homosexuel, Jaâfar, entre chez elle et veut la tuer. C’est Malika qui parle ici. Tout le temps. Elle raconte avec rage ses stratégies pour échapper aux injustices de l’Histoire. Survivre. Avoir une petite place. Malika, c’est ma mère : M’Barka Allali Taïa (1930-2010). Ce livre lui est dédié.

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Abdellah Taia
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

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