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Desert by J.M.G. Le Clezio
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 furt ...Show more
Desert by J. M. G. Le Clezio
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 furt ...Show more
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Devi, Ananda, Zuckerman, Jeffrey, Le Clezio, J M G
$26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fever by J.M.G. Le Clezio
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In "The Day that Beaumont became Ac ...Show more
Mondo and Other Stories by J. M. G. Le Clezio
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clezio as an"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation" The outlying humanity that Le Clezio explores in this collection of stories finds ...Show more
Terra Amata by J.M.G. Le Clezio
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings - whether a grain ...Show more
The Flood by J.M.G. Le Clezio
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves ...Show more
The Giants by J.M.G. Le Clezio
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, bu ...Show more
The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clezio
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, beer - permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog's eye o ...Show more
The Prospector by J. M. G. Le Clezio
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister - sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the onstellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the Unknown Corsair. But with hi ...Show more