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The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts, The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts, 0803229461, 0-8032-2946-1, 978-0-8032-2946-4, 9780803229464, J. M. G. Le Clézio
Translated by C. Dickson, , The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts, 0803280076, 0-8032-8007-6, 978-0-8032-8007-6, 9780803280076, J. M. G. Le Clézio
Translated by C. Dickson
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The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Translated by C. Dickson
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 Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clézio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, indifference, the loss of beauty, and the betrayal of innocence. In one story an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate housing project. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. At once tragic and evocative, these engrossing and beautifully crafted stories touch upon the loss of human values in a rapidly changing world.
 Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of France’s best-known contemporary writers. He has published more than thirty novels and nonfiction works. In the course of the last four decades Le Clézio has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel. His works have been translated into many languages. C. Dickson is a translator living in France. Her translations include Shams Nadir's The Astrolabe of the Sea and Mohammad Dib's The Savage Night (Nebraska 2001).  “The other side of life on the French Riviera, as seen with understated compassion and intensity in this previously untranslated 1982 collection of thematically related—and brilliantly written—stories. . . . A fascinating tour of the wild ride, conducted by a writer who has been surprising us for over forty years.”—Kirkus "Le Clézio is an intensely atmospheric, nearly hallucinatory writer, and in his riveting and eviscerating short stories, dreams turn inexorably into nightmares."—Booklist
J. M. G. Le Clézio is the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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