Storm: The Woman from Nowhere

6 hrs. 27 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Jean-Marie Le Clézio

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, one of the largest contemporary French writers, became a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature in 2008. He is the author of thirty books—novels, novellas, essays, and articles.

For the first time in Russian, two of Le Clézio’s novellas are published: “The Storm” and “The Woman from Nowhere.” The first takes place on an island lost in the Japanese Sea; the second in Côte d’Ivoire and a Paris suburb. The heroines are teenage girls who desperately strive to find their place in a hostile, unfriendly world. Le Clézio, who has lived for long periods in South America, in Africa, in East and Southeast Asia, and on his native island of Mauritius, writes once again about how a person raised in pristine nature feels themselves in the oppressive space of modern civilization.