Hi Jonas:
Happy New Year to you and your family!
I realized that I failed to follow up on this thread. I read "The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts" by Le Clézio; here's my Shelfari review of the short story collection:
"Stark, harsh, anxious, violent - words that can describe Le Clézio's powerful collection of short stories; sories that portray the struggles of the poor, the dispossessed, society's unwanted immigrants.
The following excerpt is from one of the more poignant stories, "O Thief, What is the Life You Lead?" - - - ". . . But sometimes too I tell myself that it will never, ever end because rich people have no consideration for the poor, and they couldn't care less; they keep their riches for themselves, closed up in their empty houses, in their safes. And to be able to have anything, even a crumb, you have to break into their houses and take it for yourself."
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