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From the WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'A work of bewitching beauty and humanity' Chinua Achebe In 1948, a young J.
M. G. Le Clezio left behind a still-devastated Europe with his mother and brother to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he had been separated by the war. In his characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the Nobel Prize-winning author relates both the child's dazzled discovery of freedom in the African savannah and the torment of recalling his fractured relationship with a rigid, authoritarian father. Now available to UK readers in English for the first time, The African is a poignant memoir of a lost childhood and a tribute to a father whom Le Clezio never really knew.
His legacy is the passionate anti-colonialism that the author has carried through his life.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Publisher:Gallic Books
- Publication Date:07/05/2020
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- ISBN:9781910477847
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Publisher:Gallic Books
- Publication Date:07/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781910477847
