Synopsis
War - in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. The war of the title is not merely a war of arms but a generalised state of violence permeating every atom of Le Clezio's creation. Bea B. searches for clues for the origin of the evil. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects - advertisements, cars, light bulbs - reveal extraordinary dimensions, as the earth trembles on the brink of cataclysmic explosion.
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J.M.G. Le Clezio was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2008. He was born in Nice, France, in 1940 to a French mother and her first-cousin, a Mauritian doctor of French origin who, being born in Mauritius when the island was under British rule, held a British passport. However, the family was completely Francophone. Jean-Marie Le Clezio has travelled extensively and is articulate in English and Spanish, but his true homeland is very much the French language. He spends his time between France (Nice, Paris and Brittany), and Albuquerque New Mexico.He has published more than 40 books since he won the Renaudot Prize in 1963, age 23, with Le Proces-verbal (The Interrogation), and his works have been translated around the world into 36 languages.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1973, first edition. 288 pages in black cloth with dust jacket. First Edition US. Fifth book by the 2008 Nobel Laureate in literature. Book is clean, tight and devoid of any marks. Dust jacket shows mild shelf/edge-wear, but is otherwise bright, unsoiled, unfaded. An exceptionally nice copy. Seller Inventory # BBS-0767140