The African

From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Clézio: 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 Clézio’s childhood. In 1948, young Le Clézi