by Azouz Begag · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020124621
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«L'Île-aux-vents» is the novel by Azouz Begag, published by Seuil in 1992, in paperback (156 pages, in French).
The novel recounts the childhood of Siloo Bali on an almost imaginary island, between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, within a large and chaotic family. The arrival of a French schoolteacher, Albercadaire, awakens in the boy the desire to travel; when he disappears, he leaves him two books and a longing that drives him to contemplate the sea and the large ships.
The edition belongs to the Virgule collection (No. V114).
For readers of French fiction who enjoy short coming-of-age novels, a child's-eye perspective and an insular atmosphere.
Azouz Begag is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin till 5 April 2007. He resigned to support the moderate centrist candidate François Bayrou, one of the two UMP ministers to do so.
