Winner of the 2020 Prix Femina, Human Nature charts the transformation of the French countryside through the story of one family against a backdrop of the 1976 drought and the storms of 1999.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-08
Mått:129 x 198 x 27 mm
Vikt:248 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Pushkin Press
ISBN:9781913547196
Översättare:Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Louise Rogers Lalaurie
Serge Joncour is a French novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Paris in 1961 and studied Philosophy at university before deciding to become a writer. His 2016 novel Repose-toi sur moi won the Prix Interallié and was published in English in March 2022 under the name Lean on Me.Louise Rogers Lalaurie is a translator from the French and the author of Matisse: The Books. Her translations have been shortlisted for the CWA Daggers and Best Translated Book Awards.
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‘An outstanding, big, compassionate novel on the rural world from the 1960s to the dawn of the year 2000 … By telling the story of days gone by, Joncour makes us reflect on those yet to come’ Le Figaro‘Sweeping and seamlessly paced’ Le Monde‘A gripping rural epic combined with a searing political and social critique’ Le Parisien
