Étoile errante - Softcover

Le Clézio, J. M. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070726509 ISBN 13: 9782070726509

Publisher: Gallimard, 1992

Synopsis

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

About this title

About the Author:

J.M.G. Le Clézio is a distinguished French author with over thirty novels, essays, and story collections to his credit. He is the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.

From Booklist:

Internationally acclaimed French novelist Le Clezio is a bewitching storyteller with a penchant for tales of survival that are at once acutely realistic and mythically romantic. In his latest hauntingly lyrical yet clear-eyed and worldly novel, he tells the story of two young women uprooted by the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. Esther and her parents are hiding from the Germans in a mountain village where the children run wild and grow strong while the adults risk their lives in the Resistance movement. Esther survives and, after much suffering, embarks on an arduous journey to Jerusalem. But as she and her fellow exhausted travelers finally near their promised land, they pass a stream of equally despairing, newly displaced refugees, among them Nejma, a Palestinian girl. Nejma then chronicles the misery of a gravely ill-provisioned camp and her heroic escape. Exquisitely attuned to nature's quest for balance and humanity's penchant for excess and paradox, Le Clezio writes with high compassion and deep wonder of the boundless strength of the spirit. Donna Seaman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gallimard
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 2070726509
• ISBN 13: 9782070726509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352