Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, takes the reader on an impressive journey from Asia to Africa, from Europe to America with his stories blended with his fairytale style and imagination.

In this collection of stories, which bears traces of his own life, past, roots and journeys, Le Clézio tells the stories of people from different geographies and periods who are oppressed, struggling for life and fleeing from war with his simple style and fairy tale-like language.

Especially in the stories where the female characters come to the fore, she reveals the most difficult conditions with all their horrors, but does not neglect to remind us that hope always exists. While running to the rhythm of Ujin's heels in one story, in another you will feel trapped in a spider's nest, hiding from bombs on one side and taking refuge in a tree hollow with Mari and Esmée on the other.

"A writer of new departures, poetic adventure and bodily ecstasy, an explorer of a humanity beyond and below the prevailing civilization..."

2008 Nobel Prize Committee for Literature