by J. M. G. Le Clézio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070551798
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«La Grande Vie suivi de "Peuple du ciel"» is a book of two short stories by J. M. G. Le Clézio (Gallimard, paperback, 90 pages, in French).
It brings together two stories. In «La grande vie», Pouce and Poussy, two orphans raised as sisters, leave the factory and buy a ticket south to live the high life. In «Peuple du ciel», Petite Croix, in a sunny village, dreams of escaping into the sky. Two stories about the fragility of dreams and the power of imagination.
The two stories come from the collections La ronde et autres faits divers and Mondo et autres histoires. Edition from the Folio Junior collection.
For readers of short French fiction and stories featuring young protagonists, with a poetic and evocative tone.
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".
