From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a memoir of childhood and legacy.In 1948, a young J. M. G. Le Clézio left behind a still-devastated Europe with his mother and brother to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he had been separated by the war.In his characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the Nobel Prize-winning author relates both the child’s dazzled discovery of freedom in the African savannah and the torment of recalling his fractured relationship with a rigid, authoritarian father.Now available to UK readers in English for the first time, The African is a poignant memoir of a lost childhood and a tribute to a father whom Le Clézio never really knew. His legacy is the passionate anti-colonialism that the author has carried through his life.
About the author
C. Dickson has received the ALTA Fellowship and scholarships to the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires. She lived for five years in West Africa and now lives in France.
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