From the WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
'A work of bewitching beauty and humanity' Chinua Achebe
In 1948, a young J. M. G. Le Clezio left behind a still-devastated Europe with his mother and brother to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he had been separated by the war.
In his characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the Nobel Prize-winning author relates both the child's dazzled discovery of freedom in the African savannah and the torment of recalling his fractured relationship with a rigid, authoritarian father.
Now available to UK readers in English for the first time, The African is a poignant memoir of a lost childhood and a tribute to a father whom Le Clezio never really knew. His legacy is the passionate anti-colonialism that the author has carried through his life.
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'Haunting' The Guardian
'Le Clezio is ever the master at rendering existence at the level of sensation with a daring and admirable freshness of language' New York Times
'Author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization' Swedish Academy, 2008 Nobel Prize
'Mr. Le Clezio is like a post-Darwin Rousseau, decrying the ruination of indigenous cultures around the world' Wall Street Journal
'Le Clezio's book is as much a speculative biography of a man he now realizes he hardly knew as a memoir of a complicated childhood. It is a memory palace, a deliberately disordered evocation of the past that hopscotches through time' Boston Globe
'A vivid depiction of a splintered childhood and the lovely wholeness procured from it' Kirkus Reviews
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
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978-1-910477-84-7 (9781910477847)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
J.M.G. Le Clezio (b.1940) is the author of more than forty works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature as an author of new departures, poetic adventures and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation.
