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Wind drinkers / Franck Bouysse ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke.
Van Pelt Library PQ2702.O9845 B8813 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bouysse, Franck, 1965- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Buveurs de vent. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Massif Central (France)--Fiction.
- Massif Central (France).
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 439 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Other Press LLC, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A thrilling mix of French noir and American Western, this novel charts a family's struggle for freedom and justice in a hostile mountain community. In Gour Noir, an isolated valley cut off from the rest of the world, there live four siblings. Three brothers and one sister, who are united by an unfailing bond: Marc, who constantly reads in secret, in defiance of his father's wishes; Matthieu, who can hear trees thinking; Mabel, a wondrously savage and graceful beauty; and Luc, the tragic child, the idiot, undoubtedly the wisest of them all, who can speak to frogs, deer, and birds, and dreams of one day becoming one of them. Like their father and grandfather before them, they all work for Joyce the Tyrant, the adventurer, the cold-blooded beast of the Quarries and the Dam. Winner of the Prix Jean Giono, Wind Drinkers is a masterful, parable-like novel about the power of nature and the promise of rebellion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Prix Jean Giono
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bouysse, Franck, 1965- Wind drinkers
- ISBN:
- 9781635421729
- 1635421721
- OCLC:
- 1293847436
- Publisher Number:
- 99993164245
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