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Living in Your Light

by Abdellah Taia

A Moroccan woman’s life across a changing era

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix Goncourt

    Shortlisted in 2022

  • Editorial selection

    Green Apple Books March 2025 Apple-a-Month Pick

    March 2025 Apple-a-Month Pick

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A Moroccan woman’s life across a changing era

Living in Your Light is organized around three moments in Malika’s life, extending from 1954 to 1999. Her story unfolds against the backdrop of French colonization and the final years of King Hassan II’s reign, connecting one woman’s experience with a period of political and historical change in Morocco. The supplied description centers Malika as a countrywoman and survivor, giving the book a perspective grounded in an individual life rather than a broad historical overview.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set in Morocco and North Africa.
  • Readers drawn to character-centered stories connected to historical change.
  • Readers interested in women’s lives and survival.

Themes

Women’s livesSurvivalMoroccoColonialism and political change

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Book overview

A story in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor from the award-winning French-Moroccan novelist known for humanizing North Africa's otherwise marginalized characters--prostitutes and thieves, trans and gay people in a world where being LGBTQ+ can be a dangerous act.

Shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2022.

A Green Apple bookstore March 2025 Apple-a-Month Pick.

Three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman. From 1954 to 1999. From French colonization to the death of King Hassan II.

It is her voice we hear in Abdellah Ta
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