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Desert by J. M. G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour's tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader. The holy man sends them even furt ...Show more
Desert by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour's tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader. The holy man sends them even furt ...Show more
Fever by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In "The Day that Beaumont became Ac ...Show more
Mexican Dream: Or, the Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations by J. M. G. Le Clezio
Category: Politics
Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature J. M. G. Le Clezio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clezio's haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic vision ...Show more
Mondo and Other Stories by J. M. G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clezio as an"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation" The outlying humanity that Le Clezio explores in this collection of stories finds ...Show more
Terra Amata by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings - whether a grain ...Show more
The Book of Flights by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Classics
Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless entertainments and adventures in four continents. It is an exploration and a celebration, glittering and exu ...Show more
The Flood by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves ...Show more
The Giants by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Classic
Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, bu ...Show more
The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clezio
Category: Fiction
Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, beer - permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog's eye o ...Show more