Ritournelle de la faim

J. M. G. Le Clézio · 2008 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A girl comes of age in Paris from 1931 through the Occupation in a family declining into debt and hunger, modeled on his mother's youth. It appeared weeks before Le Clézio won the Nobel and gathers his family's history into one novel.

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