Description
| Product ID: | 9781910477847 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Editions Gallic |
| Title: | African |
| Authors: | Author: J. M. G. Le Clezio, C. Dickson |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Nigeria |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE 2008 'From that moment on, there was to be a before and an after Africa for me.' 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 v From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a memoir of childhood and legacy. ‘Haunting’ The Guardian In 1948, a young J. M. G. Le Clézio 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 Clézio never really knew. His legacy is the passionate anti-colonialism that the author has carried through his life. |
| Imprint Name: | Gallic Books |
| Publisher Name: | Gallic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-05-07 |