The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation. Hailed by the Swedish Academy as Le Clézio's 'definitive breakthrough as a novelist', DESERT is an epic novel that spans the twentieth century and ranges across two continents, from the North African desert to the streets of Marseilles. In two narratives set in counterpoint, Le Clézio tells - powerfully and movingly - the story of the 'last free men' and of Europe's colonial legacy - a story of war and exile and of the endurance of the human spirit.
