We are pleased to present you one of the best works by the outstanding French writer and Nobel Prize laureate Le Clézio. In his novel, the author describes the adventures of an Arab girl who was kidnapped when she was very small. This “goldfish”—who managed to escape the dangerous nets that life threw at her—“swims” into an Algerian brothel, then into the slums of Spain, then into the sweet whirlpool of Parisian bohemia, and even to a jazz music festival in the United States. In the end, the heroine manages to find her true homeland, and—touching the roots—she is ready to begin a new life.