Publisher's abstract 1Alexis Letan is obsessed with the dream of finding the treasure of the Unknown Corsair, hidden somewhere on the island of Rodrigues. Only pirate gold can return to his family the lost paradise, where there was the sea, an ancient house under a roof the color of the sky and the tree of good and evil. Abstract from the publishing house 2Zh. M. G. Leclezio did not have to wait long for recognition. His first novel, The Trial (1963), brought him the Renaudo Prize. Then there was the Paul Morand Prize for the novel “The Desert” (1980). And in 2008, Leclezio won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The island of Mauritius, where the main events of the novel “Gold Digger” unfold, is the writer’s small homeland. Ruin results in the loss of the family nest for the Letan family. For young Alexis and his sister Laura, this is an expulsion from Eden. Only one thing can return their lost paradise - the treasure of the Unknown Corsair, pirate gold hidden somewhere on the island of Rodrigues. And Alexis sets out in search of the treasure. The romance of the southern seas under the pen of Leklesio takes on a new breath.* * *Original title: J. M. G. LE CLÉZIO Le Chercheur d'orTranslated from French by S. Yu. Vasilyeva* * *The cover design uses the painting “Attack in the Jungle” by Henri Rousseau