{"product_id":"desert-j-m-g-le-clzio","title":"Desert. J.M.G. Le Clzio","description":"\u003cp\u003eYoung Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nours tribe  the Blue Men  are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great spiritual leader. The holy man sends them even further from home, on an epic journey northward, in the hope of finding a land in which they can again be free. Decades later, an orphaned descendant of the Blue Men  a girl called Lalla  is living in a shantytown on the coast of Morocco. Lalla has inherited both the pride and the resilience of her tribe  and she will need them, as she makes a bid to escape her forced marriage to a wealthy older man. She flees to Marseilles, where she experiences both the hardships of immigrant life  as a hotel maid  and the material prosperity of those who succeed  when she becomes a successful model. And yet Lalla does not betray the legacy of her ancestors. In these two narratives set in counterpoint, Nobel Prizewinning novelist J. M. G. Le Clezio tells  powerfully and movingly  the story of the last free men and of Europes colonial legacy  a story of war and exile and of the endurance of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899736580294,"sku":"DADAX1848873816","price":50.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/81fHBqzIynL.jpg?v=1780301444","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/desert-j-m-g-le-clzio","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}