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Human Nature

Serge Joncour

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Gallic Books
  • Publish Date: Aug 22nd, 2022
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 1.00in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9781913547196
  • Categories: LiteraryNature & the EnvironmentSmall Town & Rural

About the Author

Rogers Lalaurie, Louise: - 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.
Joncour, Serge: - 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.

Praise for this book

'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