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- Sales Rank: #745828 in Books
- Published on: 2016-01-12
- Released on: 2016-01-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.60" h x 1.10" w x 5.90" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
From Publishers Weekly
The least harmonious of unions yields up two dueling halves in Ben Jelloun's fascinating novel about a marriage that's all plot, scheme, and disenchantment. In the first part, a Moroccan painter in his 50s, recovering from a stroke in Casablanca in 2000, reflects on his tempestuous 14-year marriage to Amina, who unlike her urbane, Fez-born husband, hails from a poor, rural tribe in the village of Khamsa. The two wed in France, where the painter moved in his youth to study; 14 years Amina's senior, he is a success by the time they meet, and their first years together in Paris are blissful, though their families disapprove. But disagreements, when they come, are ruinous; Amina is enraged by her husband's many affairs, and when the couple returns to Morocco in 1995, she acquires a circle of friends the painter finds abhorrent. "he... reserved the best of herself for others," he thinks, "while keeping the worst" for him. Amina's version of the story, following her husband's, doesn't discount her anger, but justifies it: the painter, she writes, "wasn't generous," so her pilfering of his accounts was only to keep their children fed. She "went out of way to upset him," Amina writes, but only because of the hurt he had always inflicted on her. Readers will be drawn as deeply as the warring spouses into this disastrous alliance; each memorable and vivid narrative corroborates and condemns the other. (Jan.)\n
Review
“A telling examination of the slippery, self-servicing ways in which we form, and tell, our own truths.” —Times Literary Supplement
“As well as pinning down the strains and lonelinesses of the (un)shared life, Jelloun forces reflection on the nature of narration, judgment and belief. This is an accomplished, provocative and very enjoyable novel.” —The Guardian
“Poses stirring questions about equality within a marriage and in the world at large.” —Travel + Leisure
“Always a resourceful and versatile storyteller…lively, surreal, flavourful and human.” —The Independent
“Skilful…[Ben Jelloun] makes subtle observations on the clash between patriarchy and feminism.” —The Daily Mail
“The least harmonious of unions yields up two dueling halves in Ben Jelloun’s fascinating novel about a marriage that’s all plot, scheme, and disenchantment…Readers will be drawn as deeply as the warring spouses into this disastrous alliance; each memorable and vivid narrative corroborates and condemns the other.” —Publishers Weekly
“Hot and bright and cinematic…a delirious meditation on lust and possession, oeuvre and authorship.” —Full Stop
“One of Morocco’s most celebrated and translated writers…The Happy Marriage explores the abuses of power between spouses, and the double standards maintained by a society that upholds the unequal treatment of men and women…Moving.” —Asymptote
“This stately novel is cinematic in scope as it captures the explosive relationship between a painter in Casablanca left paralyzed by a stroke and the wife he refuses to see, though they live in the same house…Richly embroidered…this novel allows readers to sink in.” —Library Journal
“Set against the backdrop of Casablanca in the midst of an awakening women’s rights movement, The Happy Marriage explores not only the question of who’s right and who’s wrong, but also the very nature of modern matrimony.” —The Millions
”[A] showcase for [Ben Jelloun’s] snarky wit, a fine flowing descriptive line, and an eagerness to rattle the fundamental conventions of the novel.” —Open Letters Monthly
“The contrasts in how the marriedcouple see the world provide the reader with ample food for thought…Important to this clash of wills is Ben Jelloun’s use of two distinct speaking styles for the main characters (excellently reflected in English by Naffis-Sahely).” —Words Without Borders
"[T]he issues at hand are successfully entwined with a sour tale of romance. Ben Jelloun masterfully leaves us no room to ponder who is right or wrong, but rather convincingly tells how some marriages are destined for misery." —Qantara
"Although Ben Jelloun's writing is simple and straightforward, he does take chances in structure and effect...The Happy Marriage is corrugated and layered—like the broken and fretful marriage it depicts." —Numéro Cinq
Praise for Tahar Ben Jelloun
“A writer of social and moral acuteness.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A writer of much originality, succeeds brilliantly in infusing his story with a melancholy that attaches itself not just to Ahmed but also to the Arab world.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Hauntingly poetic and original.”
—Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN is an award-winning and internationally bestselling Moroccan novelist, essayist, critic, and poet. Regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, he is also a frequent contributor to Le Monde, La Repubblica, El Pais, Panorama, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.
ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY is a poet, critic, and translator from French and Italian.
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