The Swedish Academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Cl?zio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Cl?zio's "definitive breakthrough as a novelist." Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Acad?mie Fran?aise, was translated into twenty-three languages, and quickly proved to be a best-selling novel in many countries around the world.Available for the first time in English translation, Desert is a novel composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migration of a ...
