La prière de l'absent

Synopsis of La prière de l'absent

«La prière de l'absent» is the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Le Seuil / Points Roman in paperback (234 pages, in French).

The novel narrates the mystical journey of a beggar and two vagabonds towards southern Morocco, on a pilgrimage to the tomb of a resistance hero. Along the way, characters marked by poverty and alienation appear, such as a prostitute, a dog-man and a fugitive, in a tale that revives the tradition of One Thousand and One Nights.

The novel was originally published in 1981 and this edition belongs to the Points Roman collection.

For readers of French and Maghrebi fiction interested in symbolic stories and oral tradition.