The Prospector - Softcover

Le Clézio, J M G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567923801 ISBN 13: 9781567923803

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2008

Synopsis

THE PROSPECTOR IS THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT FROM ONE OF FRANCE S PREEMINENT CONTEMPORARY NOVELISTS AND A WORK RICH WITH SENSUALITY AND HAUNTING RESONANCE. IT IS THE TURN OF THE CENTURY ON THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS, AND YOUNG ALEXIS L ETANG ENJOYS AN IDYLLIC EXISTENCE WITH HIS PARENTS MORE... AND BELOVED SISTER: SAMPLING THE PLEASURES OF PRIVILEGE, EXPLORING THE CONSTELLATIONS AND TROPICAL FLORA, AND DREAMING OF TREASURE BURIED LONG AGO BY THE LEGENDARY UNKNOWN CORSAIR. BUT WITH HIS FATHER S DEATH, ALEXIS MUST LEAVE HIS CHILDHOOD PARADISE AND ENTER THE HARSH WORLD OF PRIVATION AND SHAME. YEARS LATER, ALEXIS HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF FINDING THE CORSAIR S TREASURE AND, THROUGH IT, THE LOST MAGIC AND OPULENCE OF HIS YOUTH. HE ABANDONS JOB AND FAMILY, SETTING OFF ON A QUEST THAT WILL TAKE HIM FROM REMOTE TROPICAL ISLANDS TO THE HELL OF WORLD WAR I, AND FROM A LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE ELUSIVE OUMA TO A MOMENTOUS CONFRONTATION WITH THE SEARCH THAT HAS CONSUMED HIS LIFE. BY TURNS HARSH AND LYRICAL, POINTED AND NOSTALGIC, THE PROSPECTOR IS A PARABLE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION (LE MOND) BY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LITERARY FIGURES IN EUROPE TODAY.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born to Mauritian parents in 1940, in Nice. At age eight the family moved to Nigeria, and on the long voyage Le Clzio began his authorial career with two short novels and a prospectus of forthcoming titles. Returning to Nice at age ten, he was awarded a Bachelor's Degree from Institut d'tudes Littraires and a Doctorate from the University of Aix-en-Provence. Le Clzio is the author of more than thirty adult and children's titles, including his breakthrough 1980 novel, The Desert, and The Prospector.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1567923801
• ISBN 13: 9781567923803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352