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020			_a978126434312
040			_cAKCL
082			_a894.8123 _bLEC-M
100			_aLe Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940-
245			_aMarubhoomi (മരുഭൂമി) / _cby J.M.G. Le Clézio. _hDesert
260			_aKottayam: _bD.C. Books, _c2011
300			_ap.328
520			_aDesert is a novel composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men, notorious warriors of the desert. Driven from their lands by French colonial soldiers, Nour's tribe has come to the valley of the Saguiet El Hamra to seek the aid of the great spiritual leader known as Water of the Eyes. The religious chief sends them out from the holy city of Smara into the desert to travel still further. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, and suffering, Nour's tribe and others flee northward in the hopes of finding a land that can harbor them at last. The second narrative relates the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendant of the Blue Men. Though she is an orphan living in a shantytown known as the Project near a coastal city in Morocco, the blood of her proud, obstinate tribe runs in her veins. All too soon, Lalla must flee to escape a forced marriage with an older, wealthy man. She travels to France, undergoing many trials there, from working in a brothel to success as a highly paid fashion model, but she never betrays the blood of her ancestors.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aMalayalam Literature
650			_aMalayalam Fiction
650			_aMalayalam Novel
650			_aFrench Novel
650			_aMalayalam Translation
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