African, Paperback / softback Book

African Paperback / softback

Part of the Editions Gallic series

Paperback / softback

  • Information

Description

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.

Information

Other Formats

Save 9%

£9.99

£9.01

Information