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War

By J.M.G. Le Clezio
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War by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio explores the pervasive nature of violence through the fragile consciousness of Bea B. Her journey spans the icy wilderness, Vietnam, and stretches across 10,000 years of human history. The novel delves into the origin of evil, revealing extraordinary depths in everyday objects amidst a world on the edge of catastrophe.
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Ideal for readers who appreciate literary fiction with philosophical depth and poetic prose, as well as those interested in profound explorations of human violence and history.

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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 - advertisements, cars, light bulbs - reveal extraordinary dimensions, as the earth trembles on the brink of cataclysmic explosion.

A key novel from the 2008 Nobel Prize-winner for literature

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A key novel from the 2008 Nobel Prize-winner for literature.

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. The war of the title is not merely a war of arms but a generalised state of violence permeating every atom of Le Clezio's creation.

Bea B. searches for clues for the origin of the evil. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects - advertisements, cars, light bulbs - reveal extraordinary dimensions, as the earth trembles on the brink of cataclysmic explosion.

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Praised as "beautifully translated" by the Sunday Telegraph, with Martin Amis urging readers torn over life's meaning to engage with War. The Nobel Prize Committee highlights Le Clézio as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy." The Sunday Times celebrates the book's "density of marvellous prose shot through with jagged lightning-flashes of perception."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099530497

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 November 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 203g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

J.M.G. Le Clezio was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2008. He was born in Nice, France, in 1940 to a French mother and her first-cousin, a Mauritian doctor of French origin who, being born in Mauritius when the island was under British rule, held a British passport. However, the family was completely Francophone. Jean-Marie Le Clezio has travelled extensively and is articulate in English and Spanish, but his true homeland is very much the French language. He spends his time between France (Nice, Paris and Brittany), and Albuquerque New Mexico.He has published more than 40 books since he won the Renaudot Prize in 1963, age 23, with Le Proc s-verbal (The Interrogation), and his works have been translated around the world into 36 languages.

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