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Desert

Af: J.M.G Le Clezio Engelsk Paperback

Desert

Af: J.M.G Le Clezio Engelsk Paperback
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Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour''s tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader. The holy man sends them even further from home, on an epic journey northward, in the hope of finding a land in which they can again be free.

Decades later, an orphaned descendant of the Blue Men - a girl called Lalla - is living in a shantytown on the coast of Morocco. Lalla has inherited both the pride and the resilience of her tribe - and she will need them, as she makes a bid to escape her forced marriage to a wealthy older man. She flees to Marseilles, where she experiences both the hardships of immigrant life - as a hotel maid - and the material prosperity of those who succeed - when she becomes a successful model. And yet Lalla does not betray the legacy of her ancestors.

In these two narratives set in counterpoint, Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. G. Le Clézio tells - powerfully and movingly - the story of the ''last free men'' and of Europe''s colonial legacy - a story of war and exile and of the endurance of the human spirit.

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Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour''s tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader. The holy man sends them even further from home, on an epic journey northward, in the hope of finding a land in which they can again be free.

Decades later, an orphaned descendant of the Blue Men - a girl called Lalla - is living in a shantytown on the coast of Morocco. Lalla has inherited both the pride and the resilience of her tribe - and she will need them, as she makes a bid to escape her forced marriage to a wealthy older man. She flees to Marseilles, where she experiences both the hardships of immigrant life - as a hotel maid - and the material prosperity of those who succeed - when she becomes a successful model. And yet Lalla does not betray the legacy of her ancestors.

In these two narratives set in counterpoint, Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. G. Le Clézio tells - powerfully and movingly - the story of the ''last free men'' and of Europe''s colonial legacy - a story of war and exile and of the endurance of the human spirit.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781848873810
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1848873816
Udg. Dato: 1 mar 2011
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato: 1 mar 2011
Forfatter(e): J.M.G Le Clezio
Forfatter(e) J.M.G Le Clezio


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781848873810


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 368


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 1 mar 2011


Oplagsdato 1 mar 2011


Forlag Atlantic Books