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"Partir," driven by the exquisite text by Tahar Ben Jelloun (who was recently in Brazil giving lectures on the theme "Words Travel, Men Emigrate"), is a landmark novel about a dramatic theme increasingly prevalent in the globalized world: the impossibility of being in a land about to collapse under the violent impact of corruption, drug trafficking, prostitution, and the preservation of ancestral values. It is the story of our early 21st century.