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The Prospector
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Author
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J.M.G. Le Clezio. Carol Marks, trans.
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Publisher
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Godine
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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ISBN
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9781567923803
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Pages/Publication Date
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338/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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21572
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Description
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It is the turn of the 20th century on the island of Mauritius, in this novel from the Nobel Prize–winning French author of The Interrogation. Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and sister, exploring tropical flora and the night sky, while dreaming of the treasure supposedly buried there by the Unknown Corsair. But with his father's death, Alexis is forced from this paradise into a world of privation and shame—until, years later, he becomes obsessed with finding the Corsair's treasure. "The Prospector offers a wonderful one-volume compendium of all the grand myths rooted in the European colonial experience, combining elements from Paul et Virginie, Robinson Crusoe, and Indiana Jones.... A key text."—Washington Post "Le Clézio, one of France's finest writers (The Mexican Dream), is an incantatory and dazzlingly visual novelist. This hypnotic and mythic novel ... brilliantly conveys the sublime and terrible beauty of life and its twin, death, in devastating evocations of the pulse of the sea, the blaze of the sun, the horrors of violence, and the miraculous lyricism of the mind. A remarkable work."—Booklist (starred review)
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