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Desert by J M G LeClezio

 

Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and the First World War looms on the horizon. Nour’s tribe is forced from its lands by French colonial invaders. Driven by thirst and hunger, they are guided by their spiritual leader, who sends them further and further northward in the hope of finding a land where they can be free.

Decades later, Lalla, a descendant of the tribe known as the ‘Blue Men’ is living in a shantytown in Morocco and makes a bid to escape her forced marriage. She goes on her own epic journey to Marseilles and through the hardship of being a hotel maid. In her own life she shows she has inherited some of the traits of the men who made the original epic journey.

Desert is a powerful and moving story of the ‘last free men’ and of Europe’s colonial legacy. It is also a story of war, exile and the endurance of human spirit.

RRP $38.99
Published and distributed by Allen and Unwin under the Atlantic Books title
 

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