The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
2008, available for the first time in English translation. Hailed by the
Swedish Academy as Le Clezio's 'definitive breakthrough as a novelist', Desert
is an epic novel that spans the twentieth century and ranges across two
continents, from the North African desert to the streets of Marseilles.
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
2008, available for the first time in English translation. Hailed by the
Swedish Academy as Le Clezio's 'definitive breakthrough as a novelist', Desert
is an epic novel that spans the twentieth century and ranges across two
continents, from the North African desert to the streets of Marseilles.