The whale

The novel "The Whale" by the French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008, translated by Iman Riah. "The Whale" is the first novel translated by the awards series in Egypt for Le Clézio, since he received the Nobel Prize. "The Whale" is a short novel written in the form of a bloody epic about an unknown massacre, revealing the writer's mask as he investigates the bloody wars that threatened human existence. Le Clézio was born in the French city of Nice in 1940, and his father, a doctor, emigrated from England to Nigeria where he spent years in Africa. Le Clézio obtained a master's degree in literature and philosophy from the University of Exeter, and also taught at Budiest University in Thailand in 1966, where he addressed the conflict between different cultures and the dark side of Western dominance over the world. His other works are also famous, such as "Fever" 1965, "The Flood" 1968, "The Giants" 1975, "The Mexican Dream" 1993, "The Wandering Star" 2004, and "The Hunger Syndrome" 2008.