Desert, Paperback
Descriere
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 migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men, notorious warriors of the desert. Driven from their lands by French colonial soldiers, Nour's tribe has come to the valley of the Saguiet El Hamra to seek the aid of the great spiritual leader known as Water of the Eyes. The religious chief sends them out from the holy city of Smara into the desert to travel still further. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, and suffering, Nour's tribe and others flee northward in the hopes of finding a land that can harbor them at last. The second narrative relates the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendant of the Blue Men. Though she is an orphan living in a shantytown known as the Project near a coastal city in Morocco, the blood of her proud, obstinate tribe runs in her veins.
Despre autor
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, sau J.M.G. Le Clézio, este un scriitor francez, câștigător al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 2008 și câștigător al Premiul Renaudot în 1963. În 45 de ani de activitate scriitoricească, Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio a scris peste 50 de cărți.
