Revolutions

J. M. G. Le Clézio · 2003 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

Jean Marro grows up in Nice in the 1950s while the history of an ancestor in the Revolutionary army, and a family estate in Mauritius, press on him. The Algerian war reaches him in his own youth. It is the most autobiographical of Le Clézio's novels.

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