After years of struggling, Ben Kincaid shuts down his small legal office and decides to make a living doing something that—compared to practicing law in Tulsa—is easy money: playing jazz piano. He buys a minivan to haul his gear, and gets steady gigs playing in a combo at Uncle Earl’s Jazz Emporium. His new career is just starting to take off when a body falls from the Emporium ceiling, knocking the wind out of Kincaid and sending him right back to his old profession. The dead woman is Cajun Lily Campbell, aof the Tulsa music scene and onetime girlfriend of Uncle Earl himself. And Kincaid must be careful as he readies the old jazzman’s defense, because there is a killer on the north side of town who would like nothing more than to hear the piano player’s last tune.

“Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion.” —The Guardian

In The Happy Marriage, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun tells the story of one couple — first from the husband’s point of view, then from the wife’s — just as legal reforms are about to change women’s rights forever.

The husband, a painter in Casablanca, has been paralyzed by a stroke at the very height of his career and becomes convinced that his marriage is the sole reason for his decline.

Walled up within his illness and desperate to break free of a deeply destructive relationship, he finds escape in writing a secret book about his hellish marriage. When his wife finds it, she responds point by point with her own version of the facts, offering her own striking and incisive reinterpretation of their story.

Who is right and who is wrong? A thorny issue in a society where marriage remains a sacrosanct institution, but where there’s also a growing awareness of women’s rights. And in their absorbing struggle, both sides of this modern marriage find out they may not be so enlightened after all.

"Morocco's greatest living author." —

"A writer of social and moral acuteness." —

"A writer of much originality." —

Lalla Fatma believes she is in Fez in 1944—where she grew up — not in Tangier in 2000, where the story begins.

Guided by her fragmented memories, Ben Jelloun reimagines his mother's life in Fez at the end of the war, in the heavily ritualised world of custom and tradition that saw her married, pregnant, and widowed by sixteen. He gains privileged, painful access to her lives as daughter, sister, thrice-widowed wife — lives in which she had little say, mostly spent working in kitchens, marked by a deep religious faith and love for her family — as Alzheimer's rips them all away.

A delicate portrait of a woman's slow and unwinding descent into dementia, maps out the beautiful, fragile, and complex nature of human experience in prose equally tender and compelling.

Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely–until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other.

The affair, impassioned as it is, is not a part of the Mossad plan. The agency must hatch a dark scheme to drive the lovers apart. So what began as a quiet, solitary mission becomes a perilous exercise in survival, and Ben-Ari has no time to discover the truth about Anna’s identity before his employers act. Amid the shadowy manipulations of the secret services, the anguished agent finds himself at an impossible crossroads.

Written with the masterful skill of a seasoned novelist, and bringing to bear his years of experience as a Mossad agent himself, Ben-David once again delivers a powerful look into the mysterious Israeli intelligence agency in this action-packed page turner.

A ​kárhozott könyörtelen.
A kárhozott legyőzhetetlen.
A kárhozottnak egyetlen feladata van: hogy öljön azért a személyért, akiért létrehozták.
Nemezist arra teremtették, hogy egy galaktikus szenátor leányát, Sidoniát védelmezze. Egymás mellett nőttek fel, de semmilyen értelemben nem testvérei egymásnak. Nemezis boldogan adná az életét Sidoniáért, és ezt is várják tőle. Ölne is érte, annyi életet oltana ki a védelmében, amennyi csak szükséges.
Amikor az őrült császár értesül arról, hogy Sidonia atyja felkelést szított ellene, a szenátor leányát a Galaktikus Udvarba rendeli. Túszként kell szolgálnia az apja ellen. Nemezis csak egy módon óvhatja meg Sidoniát: ha Sidoniává válik.
Nemezis, a gyilkológép magát Sidoniának álcázva elutazik a császári udvarba, ahol korrupt politikusok és kétszínű szenátorok gyermekeinek körében kell eljátszania a szerepét. A viperafészek minden zuga újabb veszélyt rejt, de Nemezis nem vetheti be ellenük valódi képességeit: mindent kockára tenne azzal, ha leleplezné a titkát.
Amíg a birodalom egyre repedezik és mind jobban fenyegeti a nyílt lázadás, Nemezis megtanulja, hogy több rejtezik benne, mint csupán gyilkos ereje. Igazabb emberségre lel önmagában, mint amilyet a valódi emberek többségénél tapasztal. A veszélyek, akciók és intrikák árnyékában talán épp ez az emberség lesz az, ami megmenti az életét – és a birodalmat.