Forfatter fødeår: 1940
Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless entertainments and adventures in four continents.
Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, but The Giants is a call to rebellion.
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation.
Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, this title explores humankind's place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we inhabit and, ultimately, how to live.
A haunting, lyrical and mythic novel of a man haunted by visions of his ideal childhood, from the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio.
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Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends... Læs mere
War - in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects -... Læs mere
From the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, Wandering Star is the story of two young women, one uprooted by the Holocaust and the other by the founding of the state of Israel.... Læs mere