{"product_id":"the-african-editions-gallic","title":"The African (Editions Gallic)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'A work of bewitching beauty and humanity' Chinua Achebe  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'From that moment on, there was to be a before and an after Africa for me.' \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1948, a young J. M. G. Le Cl zio left behind a still-devastated Europe with his mother and brother to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he had been separated by the war.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the Nobel Prize-winning author relates both the child's dazzled discovery of freedom in the African savannah and the torment of recalling his fractured relationship with a rigid, authoritarian father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow available in English for the first time, The African is a poignant memoir of a lost childhood and a tribute to a father whom Le Cl zio never really knew. His legacy is the passionate anti-colonialism that the author has carried through his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gallic Books, Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781910477847\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gallic Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £6.11","offer_id":47919078473905,"sku":"SB-1910477842-C3","price":6.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1910477842.png?v=1789370616","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-african-editions-gallic","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}