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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J.M.G. Le Clezio , Alison AndersonPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: Bison Books Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9780803279667ISBN 10: 0803279663 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 01 April 1997 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Le Clezio is an intensely atmospheric, nearly hallucinatory writer, and in his riveting and eviscerating short stories, dreams turn inexorably into nightmares.""--Booklist Mentioned in The New York Times (Paperback Row) December 28, 2008" Le Clezio is an intensely atmospheric, nearly hallucinatory writer, and in his riveting and eviscerating short stories, dreams turn inexorably into nightmares. --Booklist Mentioned in The New York Times (Paperback Row) December 28, 2008 http://www.thomasriggs.net/blog/index.php/2009/11/eyes-on-the-prize/ Thomas Riggs & Co blog An uncharacteristically accessible and dramatic narrative about Europeans in Africa from one of the avatars of the French New Wave novel... Fintan's fascinated absorption into Onitsha's tribal culture, described with irresistible sensuous immediacy, is expertly counterpointed against his father's self-destructive obsession with Africa's legendary past-and convincingly motivates a criticism of the injustices of white colonialism that is all the more powerful for its seamless coexistence with a richly imagined story and consistently engaging characters. The most surprising work of Le Clezio's long career, and one of his best. -Kirkus Kirkus [Onitsha] offers a compelling contrast between the white mistreatment of Africans and the occasionally dangerous natural beauty surrounding the village of Onitsha on the banks of the Niger River. Fintan never forgets the harsh facts of his childhood years, and readers will not forget this novel. -Library Journal Library Journal Onitsha also includes a scathing critique of colonialism, through the voice of Maou, who increasingly speaks out against the ways the white masters treat the locals... Le Clezio's writing always moves back toward the richness and the responsibilities of the present, highlighting the necessity of undergoing a veritable apprenticeship enabling one to experience the present fully. His fiction, whose scenes and details usually stand at only a slight remove from the facts of his own life, is thereby warmly personal in tone and thoroughly credible in effect. -Michigan Quarterly Review Michigan Quarterly Review Le Clezio gives an admirably full portrait of day-to-day life in Africa, from animistic religions, to food, to street festivals. And his presentation of the last queen of Meroe and her search for a promised land gives an epic frame to the continental vision he presents. -Boston Book Review Boston Book Review Author InformationWinner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of France’s best-known contemporary writers. He has published more than thirty novels and nonfiction works. In the course of the last four decades Le Clézio has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel. His works have been translated into many languages. Alison Anderson is the author of Hidden Latitudes. She has worked as a writer, translator, and teacher and currently lives in Mill Valley, California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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