Read this book in French. Not an easy read, I must say. The writing style is rather poetical, with lots of elements typical for magical realism. The perspective goes back and forth between 1910 (a little boy Nour and his family on the run for French colonial troops in the Moroccan desert) and the...
In this week's Book Club, publisher David Godine explains the process of acquiring new work for translation, and describes how he "discovered" Nobel Prize-winner Le Clezio.Every October publishers from around the world gather at the Messe in Frankfurt for the International Book Fair. If you can i...