Jour de silence à Tanger

Synopsis of Jour de silence à Tanger

«Jour de silence à Tanger» is the story by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Seuil in hardback (123 pages, in French).

In Tangier, an elderly man spends a windy, lonely day in an empty, dilapidated house; as he grows bored, he recalls faces, voices and neighbours from another era. A whole life fits into a day of silence. The story, dominated by the figure of the father, lets the old man speak so he can murmur what was never said.

Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer; the work was originally published in 1990 and the cover bears the subtitle «Récit».

For readers of Moroccan fiction and of stories centred on memory, old age and silence.