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Year of the drought / Roland Buti ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
Van Pelt Library PQ2662.U93 M5513 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buti, Roland, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Milieu de l'horizon. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Droughts.
- History.
- Switzerland.
- Droughts--Switzerland--History--Fiction.
- Farm life--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 148 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tiverton, Devon : Old Street Publishing, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Europe is in the grip of the worst drought in living memory. The Sutter household teeters on the brink of ruin. The farmer and father of the family has invested his entire fortune in 10,000 chickens and a modern barn. But the barn's cooling system are failing, and the chicks are dying off in the heat. Meanwhile his wife invites the mysterious Cecile to stay at the farm. Their son, 13-year-old Gus, observes helplessly as both his family and his carefree childhood dissolve in the heat.
- Notes:
- Winner of the Swiss Literature Prize.
- ISBN:
- 9781910400371
- 1910400378
- OCLC:
- 1012367663
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