by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070380824
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«Le Chercheur d’Or» is the novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, published by Folio in paperback (374 pages, in French).
The novel follows Alexis, who as a child witnesses with his sister Laure the ruin of his father and his obsession with finding the gold of a corsair hidden on Rodrigues. As a teenager, he sets sail from Mauritius on the Zeta toward that chimera; then come the 1914-1918 war in France and the love of Ouma. A coming-of-age story and a tribute to nature.
The work was originally published in 1985; this French edition, from 1988, is number 2000 in the Folio collection. Le Clézio received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary novels, especially those who enjoy stories set on islands with a historical backdrop.
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".
