The Last Friend - Softcover

What Ben Jelloun does brilliantly is write with a kind of refreshing candor that demystifies the Arab world. (Paris Voice)

A profound and moving novel. (Le Monde)

Daring and introspective, The Last Friend should bring [Ben Jelloun] the wide readership that has eluded him in this country. (The Nation)

Absorbing, like a meditation, a trance. (The Daily Telegraph, London)

...a seductive, lyrical novel exploring the seeming betrayal of a lifelong friendship (French Book News)

Traces an intense thirty-year relationship between two young men in twentieth-century Tangier, as they struggle to find their identities and sexual fulfillment in late-1950s Morocco, an endeavor that takes them from their carefree university days through a brutal imprisonment and psychologically daunting release into the moral strictures of North Africa. By the author of This Blinding Absence of Light. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.