Punishment - Tahar Benjelloun

"I was punished, because I demonstrated, quietly, peacefully, for a little democracy. For months, I was nothing but a registration number, the number 10366. One day, after I had given up hope, I regained my freedom. I was finally able, as I had dreamed, To love, to travel, to write and to publish many books, however, writing "The Punishment", and the daring to go back to that story, and find its words, required me nearly fifty years.

Number of pages - 208