a clockwork orange
a room with a view
A01=J.M.G. Le Clezio
albert camus
alone in berlin
american psycho
anne of green gables
Author_J.M.G. Le Clezio
catcher in the rye
Category=FBA
Category=FYT
do androids dream of electric sheep
east of eden
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
fear and loathing in las vegas
hg wells
jane eyre
josephine cox
julian barnes
katie fforde
lord of the flies
one flew over the cuckoos nest
paradise lost
rebecca daphne du maurier
slaughterhouse 5
spy
the handmaid's tale
the little prince
the outsider
the road
the time machine
to kill a mockingbird
treasure island
war of the worlds
when breath becomes air
Product details
- ISBN 9780141191409
- Weight: 145g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
François 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 confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned outward and then directed languidly against himself.
J.M.G. Le Clézio was born on 13 April 1940 in Nice and was educated at the University College of Nice and at Bristol and London universities. His knowledge of English enabled him to work closely with his translator on his debut novel, The Interrogation, which won the Prix Renaudot in 1963. Since then he has written over forty highly acclaimed books and has been translated into thirty-six languages. The Interrogation is published by Penguin and three of his early novels are now Penguin Modern Classics: The Flood, Terra Amata and Fever. Le Clézio divides his time between France (Nice, Paris and Brittany), New Mexico and Mauritius. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
