by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070387267
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«Onitsha» is the novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio published by Folio in paperback (288 pages, in French).
In 1948, Fintan, a twelve-year-old boy, travels with his mother, Maou, to colonial Nigeria to join his father, Geoffroy Allen, in the port of Onitsha. African reality is far from Maou's idyllic dream: the colonial environment proves stifling, with tensions and wasted lives. The novel addresses cultural clash, identity, and peace.
It is volume 2472 of the Folio collection, in a 1993 edition; the work originally appeared in 1991.
For readers interested in contemporary French fiction and in the work of Le Clézio, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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".
