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 Le Clezio, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is that rare combination of best-selling author and artist of the highest order. "Wandering Star" received extraordinary critical praise in France. Pierre Lepape extolled it in "Le Monde," noting that Le Clzio neither moralizes nor takes a political stance: "He goes much farther than that, much deeper; he seeks the signs of human misery and of potential peace at the very heart of life, in a confrontation with time and the elements; with the sun and the earth, with birth and death, with the mystery of origins and the enigma of the future, with the necessity of both remembering and forgetting, without which nothing can be healed
"Wandering Star" tells two discrete stories of two young girls, one Jewish and one Palestinian, who meet once briefly by chance. Their stories are connected by substance, rather than plot. Each is a wandering star in search of a homeland-Esther escaping the Nazi holocaust, and Nejma, who experiences the horrors of life in the camps. Yet through this novel of dark times and human suffering, affirmation shines as the characters encounter the beauty of nature and instances of human kindness and love.. "Wandering Star" is a luminous lesson in humanity amid the ruins of civilization and intelligence.
--Eric Deschodt, "La Figuro  Paperback 316 pages - (9/09)Regularly: $15.00 Now: $12.75 Save $2.25 (15%)
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