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Desert (häftad, eng)
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour''s tribe - the Blue Men - are forced fr...
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Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour''s tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader.
The holy man sends them even further from home, on an epic journey northward, in the hope of finding a land in which they can again be free.
Decades later, an orphaned descendant of the Blue Men - a girl called Lalla - is living in a shantytown on the coast of MoroccoLalla has inherited both the pride and the resilience of her tribe - and she will need them, as she makes a bid to escape her forced marriage to a wealthy older man. She flees to Marseilles, where she experiences both the hardships of immigrant life - as a hotel maid - and the material prosperity of those who succeed - when she becomes a successful model.
And yet Lalla does not betray the legacy of her ancestors.
In these two narratives set in counterpoint, Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. G. Le Clézio tells - powerfully and movingly - the story of the ''last free men'' and of Europe''s colonial legacy - a story of war and exile and of the endurance of the human spirit.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 368 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Atlantic Books |
Utgivningsdatum | 2011-03-01 |
ISBN | 9781848873810 |
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- Häftad, 368, Engelska, Atlantic Books, 2011-03-01, 9781848873810
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 368
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Atlantic Books
- Utgivningsdatum 2011-03-01
- ISBN 9781848873810