Mondo and Other Stories
"Mood and description take precedent over narrative in this vivid, subtle collection by the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, originally published in France in 1978... Le Clezio's prose is unusually fine throughout; dry earth is described as sounding "under your feet like the skin of a drum." The reader is always aware of being in the hands of a master, thanks also to Anderson's strong and graceful translation." Publishers Weekly, March 2011 "The 2008 Nobel laureate's large body of work continues to make its way into English. This collection of stories was first published in French in 1978. One of the stories collected here, the atmospheric 'The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea', appeared in the New Yorker shortly after Le Clezio's Nobel win. Like that story, the rest in this collection focus on a child protagonist who seems to see the world through a different set of eyes." The Millions