Desert (en francais) / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 2070376702
ISBN-13:: 9782070376704
Pub. Date:: 01/28/1980
Publisher:: Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Incorporated

ISBN-10:: 2070376702
ISBN-13:: 9782070376704
Pub. Date:: 01/28/1980
Publisher:: Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Incorporated

Desert (en francais) / Edition 1

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ISBN-13:	9782070376704
Publisher:	Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/28/1980
Edition description:	French-language Edition
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	French

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Desert is a rich, sprawling, searching, poetic, provocative, broadly historic and demanding novel, which in all those ways displays the essence of Le Clezio…Desert moves slowly, its pace set in the beginning by the tortuous trek across the Sahara and by Le Clezio's way with language—the minutely detailed descriptions of the suffering, the recurring images of the sky, birds, the wind and light, the long waves of insistent prose designed to saturate and surround, like music. Repetitions are deliberate, rhythmic, metaphors are meant to enlighten and reflect.
—The New York Times

Elizabeth Hawes

One of the few works by 2008 Nobel laureate Le Clézio to be translated into English, this mythic novel tells two parallel stories of descendants of a holy man called Al Azraq. The novel begins with Nour, a Berber boy who bears witness to the failed rebellion led by Sheik Ma el Aïnine against the French in the years leading up to WWI. In the cadences of an incantation, Le Clézio renders the dire suffering of the displaced desert peoples who turn to Ma el Aïnine for guidance. The parallel story, set in the near-contemporary, portrays Lalla, a young woman who lives on the Moroccan coast and spends her days exploring the seashore and listening to the stories of her aunt and the fisherman Old Naman. After escaping an arranged marriage, Lalla lands in Marseille and finds not the gleaming white city of Naman's stories but a cruel place cut off from nature. Le Clézio's vision is cinematic, his language lyrical and the lives he portrays are vivid and convincing. (Sept.)

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