One protagonist created by this author of The Fish of Gold sits in a cafÃ© recounting to a woman graphic recollections of raping her, an event that she refuses to confirm or deny.
One of this author's protagonists goes through a shopping mall trying on both women's and men's clothes, looking for her reflection in the mirrors which "frightens" and "attracts" her; that character's most prized possessions are a pair of gold earrings with a crescent moon symbol. The protagonist of another of this author's novels obsesses over the question "What time is it?", and kills time by asking a salesgirl for a record he knows does not exist. One of this author's character is given a passport by an old man named El Hadj, and is a half-deaf Moroccan girl trying to figure out her identity named (*) Laila. One protagonist created by this author of The Fish of Gold sits in a cafÃ© recounting to a woman graphic recollections of raping her, an event that she refuses to confirm or deny. After Michele reports him to the police, Adam flees his house and is put in a mental institution, in that novel by him. For 10 points, name this French-Mauritian author of The Interrogation.
One of this author's protagonists goes through a shopping mall trying on both women's and men's clothes, looking for her reflection in the mirrors which "frightens" and "attracts" her; that character's most prized possessions are a pair of gold earrings with a crescent moon symbol.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio