From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Cl zio: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The African is a work of bewitching beauty and humanity. With penetrating prose and an eye for lyrical detail, he vividly captures the rhythmic space of his memoir's African backdrop and makes bare the universal complexity of father-son relationships. A triumph --Chinua Achebe

A short autobiographical account of a crucial moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Cl zio's childhood. In 1948, young Le Cl zio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he'd been separated by the war. In Le Cl zio's characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the narrative relates both the dazzled enthusiasm the child feels at discovering newfound freedom in the African savannah and the anti-colonialism that became a father's legacy to his son.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 04/30/2013
ISBN: 9781567924602
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013
Library Journal 05/15/2013 pg. 79
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2013 pg. 30
Foreword 08/31/2013
Publishers Weekly 10/07/2013
Choice 01/01/2014