The Bottom of the Jar, Abdellatif Laâbi
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The narrator vividly recalls his first encounters with the ebullient city, family dramas, and the joys and turbulence of his childhood. He recalls a renegade, hashish-loving uncle, who at nightfall transforms into a beloved Homer, his salt-of-the-earth mother's impassioned pleas to a Divine ear, and his father's enduring generosity.
Told in the spirit of a late-night ramble among friends where hilarious anecdotes and poignant recollections flow in equal parts, Laâbi's autobiographical novel offers us a generous glimpse into the formative experiences of a great poet, whose integrity and commitment to social justice earned him an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence during Morocco's "year of lead" in the 1970s."
Translated from the French, by André Naffis-Sahely.
Reprint: Archipelago Books, 2013.
226 pages.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a winner of the Goncourt Prize for Poetry.
Told in the spirit of a late-night ramble among friends where hilarious anecdotes and poignant recollections flow in equal parts, Laâbi's autobiographical novel offers us a generous glimpse into the formative experiences of a great poet, whose integrity and commitment to social justice earned him an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence during Morocco's "year of lead" in the 1970s."
Translated from the French, by André Naffis-Sahely.
Reprint: Archipelago Books, 2013.
226 pages.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a winner of the Goncourt Prize for Poetry.
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