Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940-2022
The novel is told from two viewpoints, in a double time scheme. On the one hand is Nour, a Tuareg boy who finds himself part of an uprising against encroaching French colonists that took place in north Africa between 1910-12. On the other is Lalla, a striking and indomitable orphan girl descended...