{"product_id":"9780300243024","title":"The Punishment (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn innocent man's gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the narrator's traumatic experience, written with a memoirist's immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began secretly to write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52929718124853,"sku":"EB_LI0700_A01-07_DUBAI","price":113.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9780300243024-1.jpg?v=1789400593","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ja\/products\/9780300243024","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}