by J. M. G. Le Clézio · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070376704
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«Désert» is the novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio, published by Folio in paperback (438 pages, in French).
The novel alternates two stories: the journey of Nour, a teenager of the Blue Men who flees across the Sahara before French colonisation, and the life of Lalla, a descendant of those nomads, raised in a shantytown in Morocco and exiled in Marseille. Both plots explore memory, resistance and the bond with the desert.
The novel won the Grand Prix Paul-Morand of the Académie française in 1980 and this edition is volume 1670 of the Folio collection. J. M. G. Le Clézio received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.
For readers of French literature and of novels that combine history, identity and resistance.
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".
