Los náufragos del amor

Synopsis of Los náufragos del amor

«Los náufragos del amor» is the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Alfaguara in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).

Larbi Bennya, a university professor in Marrakech, wins a contest that takes him to Naples and away from his marital crisis. There he discovers an old 19th-century hospice built by Charles III of Bourbon, in ruins, inhabited by a mysterious elderly woman, Jewish and Muslim, and by castaways of love and the disinherited who tell their stories.

The work was originally published in French as «L'Auberge des pauvres» in 1997; this Spanish edition, translated by Malika Embarek López, appeared in 2000.

For readers of contemporary fiction and fiction with a social background, especially those interested in identity and friendship.