Terra Amata
by J. M. G. Le Clézio, Barbara Bray (Translator)
ISBN-10: 0141191414
ISBN-13: 9780141191416
$16.18
Book Specs
Trade Paper
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Published on
Nov 27, 2008
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
9.00x6.00x1.25 Inches
Weight
0.37 Pounds
About the Book
Translated by Barbara Bray
'A writer of something akin to genius'
Sunday Telegraph
For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings - whether a grain of sand, an insect or a blade of grass - as he journeys on a sensory adventure from cradle to grave. Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, Terra Amata brilliantly explores humankind's place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we inhabit and, ultimately, how to live.
Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature