Drew’s Reviews > Ritournelle de la faim > Status Update

The images of Nice in wartime are so rich and moving.

I love the way that le Clézio introduces apparently essential facts in passing as the novel progresses, changing our perspective on everything that we've read up to that point. Each time he does it, the novel's past bucks, flexes and resettles as we reinterpret what we know in the light of the new information. Welcome to the rodeo.