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The African is the autobiographical account of a pivotal moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Clézio's childhood. Praised by the Swedish Academy as 'a reconstruction, a vindication, and the recollection of a boy who lived in the shadow of a stranger he was obliged to love', The African is now available in English for the first time.In 1948, young Le Clézio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join ...

Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region.

In 1948, young Le Clezio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria. In this title, the narrative relates both the dazzled enthusiasm the child feels at discovering newfound freedom in the Africa and his torment at discovering the rigid authoritarian nature of his father.

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 TelegraphFrom 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 experi...

A masterpiece from J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The parallel stories of a lost culture in the North African desert and their descendants, unwanted immigrants in Europe.Desert is two stories. The first takes place between 1909 and 1912 and is about the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men. They are warriors of the desert. Driven from their lands by French colonial soldiers, Nour...

Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region.