Author: J.M.G. Le Clezio
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: onitsha
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0803229151
ISBN-13: 9780803229150
Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novel with a notably direct, horrified perspective on racism and colonialism. In the words of translator Alison Anderson, Onitsha is remarkable for its “almost mythological
Author: J.M.G. Le Clezio
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: onitsha
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0803279663
ISBN-13: 9780803279667
Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novel with a notably direct, horrified perspective on racism and colonialism. In the words of translator Alison Anderson, Onitsha is remarkable for its “almost mythological
Authors:J. M. G. Le Clezio, C. Dickson,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: mundi, verba, desert
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1567923860
ISBN-13: 9781567923865
The Swedish Academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Clezio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Clezio’s definitive breakthrough as a novelist. Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Academie Francaise, was translated into twenty-three languages, and quickly proved to be a best-selling novel in many countries around the world.Available for the first time in English translation, Desert is a novel composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migratio
Author: J. M. G. Le Clezio
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: books, mundi, verba, prospector
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 087923976X
ISBN-13: 9780879239763
The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France’s preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L’Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister: sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the constellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the legendary Unknown Corsair. But with his father’s death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and shame.
Author: J. M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave) Le Clezio
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: prospector
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1567923801
ISBN-13: 9781567923803
The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France’s preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L’Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister: sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the constellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the legendary Unknown Corsair. But with his father’s death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and shame.
Author: J.M.G. Le Clézio
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Keywords: selection, series, translation, lannan, star, wandering
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1931896569
ISBN-13: 9781931896566
“This is Nobel-quality writing, an international author with a mature style telling a story to the peak of his capacity. The English language needs more of it.”—The Telegraph From the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, Wandering Star is the story of two young women, one uprooted by the Holocaust and the other by the founding of the state of Israel. Bearing witness to the boundless strength of the spirit, and based on his own experience as a child in World War II, J.M.G. Le Clézio chronicles the saga of a young girl, Esther, who, in a small mountain village north of Nice o
Author: J.M.G. Le Clezio
Publisher: Galllimard
Keywords: french, literature, prize, nobel, dsert
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 1987-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0785906460
ISBN-13: 9780785906469
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