The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
214
Utgivningsdatum
2003-01-01
Förlag
Bison Books
Översättare
C Dickson
Originalspråk
French
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
250 x 164 x 18 mm
Vikt
390 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
214 p. ;
ISBN
9780803229464

The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts

LA Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers

av J M G Le Clezio
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-01-01
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Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clezio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, indifference, the loss of beauty, and the betrayal of innocence. In one story an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate housing project. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. At once tragic and evocative, these engrossing and beautifully crafted stories touch upon the loss of human values in a rapidly changing world.
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Mentioned in The New York Times (Paperback Row) December 28, 2008

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Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clezio 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 Clezio has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel. His works have been translated into many languages. C. Dickson is a translator living in France. Her translations include Shams Nadir's The Astrolabe of the Sea and Mohammad Dib's The Savage Night (Nebraska 2001).

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