From the winner of the 2004 Impac Prize a classic story of friendship andbetrayal.<strong>The Last Friend</strong> the new novel from internationally acclaimed ... » 

From the winner of the 2004 Impac Prize a classic story of friendship andbetrayal.The Last Friend the new novel from internationally acclaimed author TaharBen Jelloun winner of the 2004 International DublinIMPAC award is aRashamonlike tale of friendship and betrayal set in twentieth centuryTangier. Written in Ben Jellouns inimitable and powerfully direct style thenovel explores the twists and turns of an intense thirtyyear friendshipbetween two young men struggling to find their identities and sexualfulfillment in Morocco in the late 1950s a complex and contradictory societyboth modern and archaic.From their carefree university days through their brutal imprisonment andultimate release the two rely on each other for physical and psychologicalsurvival forging bonds not easily broken. Each narrator tells his version ofthe story painting a vivid portrait of life lived within and in opposition tothe moral strictures of North Africa.Set against a backdrop of repression and disillusionment The Last Friend isa tale of loss of innocence and a nations coming of age. «