The Song Of The World
  • Published: 15 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9781846553646
  • Imprint: Harvill Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

The Song Of The World

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Of Sailor's twin sons, the elder is dead and the younger is missing.A simple woodsman, Sailor resolves to find the boy, fearing the worst.Soon after he and his friend Antonio set off, they stumble across a blind girl giving birth. This strange circumstance proves typical of their journey into the heart of the forest. Sailor and Antonio discover that, though the lost Twin is alive, he is the target of a manhunt. As Sailor and Antonio attempt to rescue Twin, the adventures unravel at a breathtaking speed. The net tightens around the three men until one of them is trapped and killed. And only then does the real action of this remarkable picaresque novel begin. In Giono's universe, no murder shall go unavenged.

This tale of primitive love and vendetta is cast in a timeless landscape of river, mountain and forest. With its taut, fast-paced story and pastoral setting, The Song of the World is another triumph from the celebrated author of The Man Who Planted Trees.
  • Published: 15 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9781846553646
  • Imprint: Harvill Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Jean Giono

Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of André Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including The Horseman on the Roof, and numerous essays and stories. In 1953, the year in which he wrote The Man who Planted Trees, he was awarded the Prix Monégasque for his collective work. Jean Giono died in October 1970.

Also by Jean Giono

The Man Who Planted Trees
Ennemonde
The Open Road
Occupation Journal
A King Alone
Melville: A Novel
The Horseman On The Roof
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Praise for The Song Of The World

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 it. The 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 is one of the giants of modern French letters. He is the poet of the French countryside and of the French peasant, of man and nature, and the relation of man to nature. His books stand apart; there is nothing else in all French literature quite like them

Living Age

As with Faulkner, we have blood, night, violence, myth. To read Giono is to be immersed

François Nourissier
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