Author:J.M.G. Le Clezio
War - in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. The war of the title is not merely a war of arms but a generalised state of violence permeating every atom of Le Clézio's creation. Bea B. searches for clues for the origin of the evil. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects - advertisements, cars, light bulbs - reveal extraordinary dimensions, as the earth trembles on the brink of cataclysmic explosion.
Beautifully translated by Simon Watson-Taylor
—— Sunday TelegraphPersons still in two minds about the meaning of life would do well to study War
—— Martin AmisAn author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization
—— Nobel Prize CommitteeA density of marvellous prose shot through with jagged lightning-flashes of perception...What a writer!
—— Sunday TimesBoth brilliant and overwhelmingly powerful
—— Belinda Otas , New African WomanWith some particularly visceral scenes of suffering this tale of "the human capacity for viciousness" also captures the nobility and self-sacrifice employed, at great cost, to hold together a world "breaking in two
—— Anna Scott , Guardian
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