{"product_id":"on-the-wrong-side-hardcover","title":"On the Wrong Side - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. M. G. Le Cl?zio\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTeresa Lavender Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short story collection from Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clézio offers a poignant and powerful exploration of the lives of the underprivileged and marginalized.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e J. M. G. Le Clézio's \u003ci\u003eOn the Wrong Side\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of eight short stories, continues the author's life-long pursuit of granting visibility to the unseen and a voice to the voiceless. Here, the author focuses on the underclasses, primarily children who have been left behind, abandoned, and subjected to unspeakable violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these haunting tales, we encounter Maureez Samson, a mistreated orphan from Rodrigues Island, who, thanks to her exceptional voice, becomes a famous singer and defies all expectations; some young Indians in Darién, a region straddling Panama and Colombia, struggle to raise their young son and save their idyllic land from its invasion and destruction by drug lords; Juanico and Chuche, two slave children who are taken in by the community of Saint Kateri Takakwitha after an arduous and perilous journey; and in Nogales, on the border between Mexico and the United States, the \"street rats,\" children who cross through the sewers to wreak havoc and perhaps indulge their dreams of life on the other side. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Le Clézio's own words, these stories are not simply meant to reveal or describe the plight of the \"rejected,\" but to \"create in the reader a feeling of revolt in the face of the injustice of what is happening to them.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. M. G. Le Clézio\u003c\/b\u003e is a French writer and the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eMydriasis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo the Icebergs\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Seagull Books.\u003cb\u003e Teresa Lavender Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance translator living in Chicago. She has published nearly fifty translations, including works by J. M. G. Le Clézio, Roland Barthes, Tzvetan Todorov, Diane Meur, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, and Florence Noiville, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47261641277689,"sku":"9781803093857","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/rqYGGFEzsV9781803093857.webp?v=1768802556","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/on-the-wrong-side-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}