Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, French writer, author of over 40 books and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008.
In an excerpt from his novel " Le Chercheur d'Or " (the Gold Digger) Captain Bradmen question
Do you know the queen of the islands?
Does the queen of the islands? responds baffled the searcher Ali.
If .. Agalega, the most fertile and healthy island in the Indian Ocean.
the helmsman has shrugged and said in French ... l'île de rats