by Tahar Ben Jelloun · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724123974
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«O Albergue dos Pobres» is the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Edições Asa in paperback (208 pages, in Portuguese).
A Moroccan university professor, disillusioned with his life and his country, is invited to write a portrait of Naples. There he discovers the old Albergue dos Pobres building and a mysterious old woman who leads him into a labyrinth of tales of extraordinary figures, in a fable about racism and the disinherited.
Work originally published in French as «L'Auberge des pauvres» (1997); this edition appeared in 1999. Nominated for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 2000.
A read for those who appreciate Maghrebi francophone narrative and contemporary allegories with a social backdrop.
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