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Alma

By جان ماري غوستاف لوكليزيو

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2019

  • رواية

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Jérémie travels to Mauritius to investigate his family history and search for the last traces of the extinct dodo. His journey intersects with the opposite movement of Dominique, a homeless islander who says he was born to make others laugh. Their stories multiply across colonial memory, landscape and environmental loss until modern Mauritius becomes ‘Maya Land’, a place of illusion. Le Clézio’s novel is a polyphonic meditation on origins, extinction and belonging. Originally written in French as “Alma”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Marie Elias.

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