← Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClezioThe Africanby Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClezioFind on Amazon↗About the authorJean-Marie Gustave Le ClezioFrench-Mauritian author and Nobel laureate whose restless fiction moves between Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific in search of civilizations marginalized by modernity. Desert is his most celebrated novel.More by Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClezioDesertNomadic tribe woman adapts to city life with mystical introspection→The Interrogation→The ProspectorMan searches for wealth and enlightenment in African wilderness→OnitshaColonial tragedy examines human connection amid Igbo town and British rule→