About this title: Wandering Star tells two discrete stories of two young girls, one Jewish and one Palestinian, who meet once briefly by chance. Their stories are connected by substance, rather than plot. Each is a wandering star in search of a homeland - Esther escaping the Nazi holocaust, and Nejma, who experiences the horrors of life in the camps. Yet through ...
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Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781931896115ISBN:1931896119
Description: Very Good. Cover has edge wear, creases, minor scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. Minor dirt on edge. No writing. Very good. read more
Description: Le Clzio is that rare combination of best-selling author and artist of the highest order. "Wandering Star" received extraordinary critical praise in France. Pierre Lepape extolled it in "Le Monde, " noting that Le Clzio neither moralizes nor takes a political stance: "He goes much farther than that, much deeper; he seeks the signs of human misery and of potential peace at the very heart of life, in a confrontation with time and the elements; with the sun and the earth, with birth and death, ... read more
Description: Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Le Clzio is that rare combination of best-selling author and artist of the highest order. "Wandering Star" received extraordinary critical praise in France. Pierre Lepape extolled it in "Le Monde, " noting that Le Clzio neither moralizes nor takes a political stance: "He goes much farther than that, much deeper; he seeks the signs of human misery ... read more
Description: VG+ No Jacket. Book shows a little wear to edges and the first few pages show some scoring (noting too distracting). The incredibly scarce Uncorrected Proof / Advance Reader's Copy of this novel by Le Clezio. Translated from the French by C. Dickson. Bound in stiff glossy white wraps that show well. 316 pp. The author is the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. read more
Description: PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Le Clzio is that rare combination of best-selling author and artist of the highest order. "Wandering Star" received extraordinary critical praise in France. Pierre Lepape extolled it in "Le Monde, " noting that Le Clzio neither moralizes nor takes a political stance: "He goes much farther than that, much deeper; he seeks the signs of human misery and of potential ... read more
"Not only is this book written beautifully, but the author is able to capture multiple voices (from multiple characters and switching from first to third person). The central story is of a Jewish girl and her family who are always one step ahead of the Nazis in Europe until they make their way to Jerusalem and end up in Israel at the time of its founding. Once there she encounters an Arab woman escaping persecution in Israel and fleeing to a refugee camp. At that point the story switches to that of the young Arab woman, only later to go back to the original character coming to terms with her story as an adult. The author writes without bias; he is able to capture the sadness and horror of each situation. It is definitely worth the read."
"It is surely a very lyrical translation. I found myself much absorbed in the description of the vast, grassy landscape, the mountains, the trees, the desert, the rivers, the life and death of it. I really wish I didn't think of the word "dull" when trying to describe this book. It's actually got a sort of fragile beauty to it; a tenderness that can be easily be overturned by ambivalence if you let it."
"The author told his story through the vision of children to whom the war was not the big military picture but that of individual events, small events which are not specifically noted in history books, but events which shaped and determined the course of the lives of all who lived through that era. Esther, about whom most of this book is written, could be a character from the book Exodus as could the Arab girl who was also caught up in the storm of the war in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although Esther was not interred in a concentration camp, she was equally imprisoned by WW II and her oddessy to Israel. The lives of these two young girls touched for an instant--but the touch was symbolic of the spirits of survivors. When one survives there is hope. Hope coming out of such absolute misery."
"This is a translation from our latest Nobel Laureate. Known as a poet, this novel follows two women. The first is Esther and we pick up her story in the Italian Alps in 1942 as she and her mother attempt escape the Nazis until she eventually reaches Palestine. We also follow Nejma a young girl who reveals the horrors of a forgotten Palestinian refugee camp. The writing is poetic...sort of like The English Patient. Rather than visual images we share more of the emotional responses of the characters and their story."
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