Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave) 1940-

Desert by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
92 editions published between 1980 and 2011 in 19 languages and held by 1,438 libraries worldwide
After being driven from their land by French colonial soldiers in 1909, Nour and his people, "the blue men" must search for a haven out of the desert that will shelter them. Interspersed with the story of Nour is the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendent of the blue men, who lives in Morocco and tries to stay true to the blood of her ancestors while experiencing life as a modern immigrant.

The prospector by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
53 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 1,057 libraries worldwide
Obsessed with the idea of finding the Corsair treasure he heard about in his youth, Alexis L'Etang abandons his job and family, setting off on a quest that will take him from remote tropical islands to the hell of the First World War, and from a love affair with the elusive Ouma to a momentous confrontation with the search that has consumed his life.

Le procès-verbal by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
82 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 1,051 libraries worldwide
A solitary young man, Adam Pollo, perhaps the first man, perhaps the last, has a remarkable interior adventure.

Wandering star : a novel by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
48 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in 15 languages and held by 1,038 libraries worldwide
While both Esther and Nejma want peace, each has a different experience during the founding of Israel; Esther is a Jewish girl who participtes in the founding, and Nejma is a Palestinian who becomes a refugee.

Onitsha by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
44 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in 12 languages and held by 888 libraries worldwide
A novel on white colonialism in Africa through the eyes of Fintan, a 12-year-old boy who joins his parents in Nigeria. He meets an African boy his age and participates in the world of the Africans, contrasting it with the world of the whites.

The Mexican dream, or, The interrupted thought of Amerindian civilizations by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
9 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 840 libraries worldwide
"Not one dream but many unfold in J.M.G. Le Clezio's conjuring of the consciousness of Mexico, a powerful evocation of the imaginings that made and unmade an ancient culture. "What motivated me," Le Clezio has said, "was a sort of dream about what has disappeared and what could have been." A widely respected French novelist who for many years has studied pre-Columbian Mexico, Le Clezio imagined how the thought of early Indian civilizations might have evolved if not for the interruption of European conquest." "In an unprecedented way, his book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, which in its own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in Mexico, Le Clezio also shows us those of the "barbarians" of the north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier." "Finally, Le Clezio's book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations - in their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own destruction - moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clezio in this book. The author's deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the dream around."--Jacket.

The round & other cold hard facts = La ronde et autres faits divers by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
41 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 801 libraries worldwide
Presents a collection of short stories, including "Ariadne," "The Great Life," and "David."

Le déluge; [roman by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
32 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 774 libraries worldwide

War by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
40 editions published between 1970 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 724 libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman philosophique.

Terra amata by J.-M. G Le Clézio( Book )
42 editions published between 1967 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 673 libraries worldwide
Quatre étapes sur le chemin de la vie de Chancelade, marqué par un mot de sa grand-mère qui lui avait dit, alors âgée de quatre-vingts ans : "La vie est si courte." D'où la volonté de Chancelade de vivre intensément, de ne pas perdre une seconde, et d'être sans cesse au niveau de cette rumeur de la vie et de ce qui pourrait l'être.