Wandering Star

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Bearing witness to the boundless strength of the spirit, and based on his own experience as a child in World War II, J.M.G. Le Clezio chronicles the saga of two young women, one uprooted by the Holocaust and the other by the founding of the state of Israel. Esther, a young Jewish girl who travels to Jerusalem after World War II, crosses paths with Nejma, a Palestinian girl, whose story of life in the camps balances Esther's own tale of suffering and survival. They never meet again, but in their respective exiles, they are forever haunted by the memory of one another. Wanderins Star is a powerful coming-of-age story and, as Le Figaro notes, truly "a luminous lesson in humanity."
"What makes Wanderins Star such a remarkable novel is Le Clezio's overwhelming empathy, the lack of authorial judging or politicizing in a story that could so easily have been sentimentalized or radicalized No one who reads this novel can doubt [Le Clezio's] stature and... Tovább

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A LANNAN TRANSLATION SELECTION
Bearing witness to the boundless strength of the spirit, and based on his own experience as a child in World War II, J.M.G. Le Clezio chronicles the saga of two young women, one uprooted by the Holocaust and the other by the founding of the state of Israel. Esther, a young Jewish girl who travels to Jerusalem after World War II, crosses paths with Nejma, a Palestinian girl, whose story of life in the camps balances Esther's own tale of suffering and survival. They never meet again, but in their respective exiles, they are forever haunted by the memory of one another. Wanderins Star is a powerful coming-of-age story and, as Le Figaro notes, truly "a luminous lesson in humanity."
"What makes Wanderins Star such a remarkable novel is Le Clezio's overwhelming empathy, the lack of authorial judging or politicizing in a story that could so easily have been sentimentalized or radicalized No one who reads this novel can doubt [Le Clezio's] stature and importance as a writer."
—Timei Literary Supplement
"if a Romare Bearden painting, a Pablo Neruda poem, and a Billie Holiday blues were by means of an arcane alchemy combined to form some rare and breathtaking thing, it might be called Wandering Star Experimental, beautiful, terrifying, sad, numbing, revealing, curious [this] is a story whose end all must strive to tell." —Political Ajj^airs
"[Le Clezio's] work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of wonder about other places and other cultures." —Newyoric Times
"This is Nobel-quality writing, an international author with a mature style telling a story to the peak of his capacity. The English language needs more of it."
—The Telegraph Vissza