The African

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.

Product details

• Authors: J M G LE CLEZIO, J. M. G. Le Clezio, J. M. G. Le Clezio, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J.-M. G. Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
• Assisted by: C. Dickson (Translation)
• Publisher: Gallic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781910477847
• ISBN: 978-1-910477-84-7
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Editions Gallic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Nigeria, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, 20th Century, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Military Families, TRAVEL / Africa / West, C 1945 To C 1960