by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio · tapa dura · ISBN 9782286053888
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«Désert» is the novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, published by Le Grand livre du mois in hardcover (410 pages, in French).
Lalla, a young descendant of a desert tribe, arrives in the slums of Marseille with the desert light in her eyes and the blood of the warriors of the River of Gold in her veins. The work also evokes the massacre of a North African tribe around 1910 and explores identity, exile and the memory of lost landscapes.
It won the Prix Renaudot in 1980, the year of its original publication. This hardcover edition was published in 2008.
For readers of French literature and historical novels with an African backdrop, particularly those addressing identity and exile.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French, Mauritian, and British nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
