Song of the World,The by Jean Giono
A tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest. Sailor, a woodsman, has twin sons, the elder of whom is dead and the younger, the red-head, has gone missing upcountry where the powerful landowner Maudru holds sway. With his friend Antonio, the riverman, he goes in search of the boy, fearing that he too has been killed. On the way they come upon a lone girl giving birth in the woods at dead of night, and they bring her to a place of safety. Once among Maudru's drovers, who effectively serve him as a private army, they have to watch their step, the more so when they learn that the lost twin is in fact alive but the object of a ruthless manhunt, for he has married Maudru's daughter against her father's wishes, and is blamed, too, for the death of a nephew. With its taut yet elegiac atmosphere The Song of the World is unmistakably the work of a master storyteller.
Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion and reality Henry Miller; There is still dew on this world of Giono's; he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing itThe emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated, and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him New York Times
Jean Giono (1895-1970) was born in Manosque, a small Provencal town in south-eastern France. His books include The Man Who Planted Trees, Second Harvest and The Horseman on the Roof.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860467653 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860467652 |
| Title | Song of the World,The |
| Author | Jean Giono |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-12-27 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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