About this title: The Swedish academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Cezio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Cleio's "definitive breakthrough as a novelist." Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Academie Francaise, was translated into twenty-three languages, and quickly proved to be a best-selling novel in ...
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Edition: A Verba Mundi book, 1st U.S. edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781567923865ISBN:1567923860
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Top back corner of leading edge and back flyleaf stained. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Verba Mundi (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: David R Godine
Date Published: 2009-06-01
ISBN-13:9781567923865ISBN:1567923860
Description: Used-Very Good. VERY GOOD PLUS-Tight and solid with some light surface wear in the form of a significant mar on end pages. Very clean with no highlighting or writing. Dust Jacket in like new condition. Textbook. read more
Description: Like New. SHIPS FROM GERMANY. NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING! Allow 10-14 business days for delivery. Please always check the language in the product description section. Few left in stock-order soon. Selling online since 1995. Code: L20091126103202I. read more
"Parallel naratives of North African peoples, one following Nour around 1910 as the colonial intrusions destroy the freedoms of the desert peoples, and one contemporary (80s) following Lalla as her life revolves around the poles of the desert, legends and tales of her mother, and her experiences of the present day in North Africa and Marseille."
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