Leaving Tangier a novel

Item Description:	"A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover. "Originally published in French under the title Partir by Editions Gallimard, Paris"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:	vii, 275 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:	0143114654 9780143114659
Author Notes:	Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. A novelist, essayist, critic, and poet, he is a regular contributor to Le Monde , La Republica , El País, and Panorama . His novels include The Sacred Night (winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt), Corruption , and The Last Friend . Ben Jelloun won the 1994 Prix Maghreb, and in 2004 he won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for This Blinding Absence of Light .