The Love of Amirat

The Love of Amirat is a journal kept by one of the freest poets of his generation—and, as J.-M.G. Le Clézio wrote in Le Monde upon its 1985 release, "the most beautiful thing Daniel Biga has ever written." It is above all a paradise lost and regained: the name of a village in the Alpes-Maritimes, an allegory for an inner refuge, and a longing for elsewhere—a wild world radiant with daylight, birds, and trees. Ultimately, The Love of Amirat is a celebration of life itself.