In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clezio as an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation. The outlying humanity that Le Clezio explores in this collection of stories finds its expression in the understanding of children. The world of Mondo and Other Stories is that of a natural world pushed to the margins by complacent, indifferent modernity.
Haunting and beautiful, these stories speak to a universal longing for a life beyond the confines and trappings...