During the months of November and January, Tres con libros will once again read the French writer of Moroccan origin Tahar Ben Jelloun in his first foray into the noir genre. The members of Tres con libros will meet on 18 January to share their impressions of the reading of Insomnia (Cabaret Voltaire) together with the translator of the book and National Prize for the Work of a Translator Malika Embarek López.
The protagonist of this book, who suffers from insomnia, discovers that the only way he can get to sleep is by killing. The first victim is his mother. But the effect is diminishing, forcing him to repeat the crime. The more important his victims are, the better he sleeps, and so the escalation continues.
"In Insomnia, Tahar Ben Jelloun challenges this evil that affects millions of people with unprecedented irony and humour" (Source: Cabaret Voltaire).
Tahar Ben Jelloun was at the Fundación Tres Culturas on 1 December, talking about his work with Professor Lola López Enamorado.
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- This book is the current reading of the Tres con libros club.
- The Tres Culturas library has a batch of 30 copies of this work available for collective loans.
This activity is subsidised by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the subsidy granted by the Consejería de la Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación Administrativa (Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification).
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