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J.M.G. Le Clézio - Desert

Released: 01/02/2010 Atlantic Books
From the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature comes a dense novel. Set between 1970s Europe and pre-World War One Africa, the atmospheric narrative roams over epic landscapes. Immigrant life, exile and ancestral legacy are just a few of the themes explored in this engaging story. For more information visit: http://www.atlantic-books.co.uk/our_books/browse_catalogue.asp?css=1&edition=2550 Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848873794?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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Financial Times“Both timely and prophetic...” One of Le Clézio’s major works and, despite the novel’s relative antiquity, it stands up remarkably well to 21st-century scrutiny. Most crucially, it reveals the history of colonial France in the Arab world as a deep-layered series of narratives
 
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The Times“Storyline takes a back seat to atmospherics...” Desert worships at the altar of high literary art. For this novel is noteworthy for being dense, highly measured, intensely imagistic and deliberately protracted in its rhythms...
 
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The New York Times“Rich, sprawling, searching, poetic, provocative...” It moves slowly, its pace set in the beginning by the tortuous trek across the Sahara and by Le Clézio’s way with language... Repetitions are deliberate, rhythmic, metaphors are meant to enlighten and reflect...
 
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