Jean-Marie Gustave Leclezio, one of the greatest living French writers, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008. He is the author of thirty books - these are novels, stories, essays, articles. For the first time, two stories by Leclezio - “The Storm” and “The Woman from Nowhere” - are published in Russian. The action of the first takes place on an island lost in the Sea of Japan, the other - in Cote d'Ivoire and the Parisian suburbs. The heroines are teenage girls who are desperate to find their place in an inhospitable, hostile world. Leclezio, probably the least Parisian writer, who lived for a long time in South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan and on his native island of Mauritius, again writes about how a person who grew up in the lap of pristine nature feels in an oppressive space modern civilization.