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From Booklist Le Clezio, a distinguished French writer with 20 novels to his credit, including The Prospector (1993), writes moody and menacing short stories set in a fallen universe. Once a verdant paradise, Le Clezios world has been brutalized with hideous concrete highrise projects, heavy traffic, and pollution, and most adults hide in celllike apartments bathed in televisions narcotic blue glow. But the young are restless and reckless, and they pay dearly for their attempts at escape in The Round, in which two teenage girls race their mopeds through their stodgy town at dangerously high speeds, and in Ariadne, in which an urban adolescent, reluctant to be cooped up with her unhappy family, becomes prey to a motorcycle gang. Le Clezio is an intensely atmospheric, nearly hallucinatory writer, and in his riveting and eviscerating short stories, dreams turn inexorably into nightmares. Donna SeamanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the lessprivileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clzio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, indifference, the loss of beauty, and the betrayal of innocence.In one story an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate housing project. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and two girls risk everything by running away from home and their deadend factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. At once tragic and evocative, these engrossing and beautifully crafted stories touch upon the loss of human values in a rapidly changing world. About the Author Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clzio was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of Frances bestknown contemporary writers. He has published more than thirty novels and nonfiction works. In the course of the last four decades Le Clzio has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel. His works have been translated into many languages. C. Dickson is a translator living in France. Her translations include Shams Nadirs The Astrolabe of the Sea and Mohammad Dibs The Savage Night (Nebraska 2001).
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