Jean Giono
French author from Provence whose fiction celebrates the natural world and peasant life with lyrical intensity. Regain (Harvest) and The Song of the World are among his finest pastoral novels.
Works
- RegainNovel of rural regeneration as an abandoned village is restored to life
- The Song of the WorldLyrical novel about river boatmen and the landscape they inhabit
- Joy of Man's DesiringPastoral novel celebrating human connection within nature
- Un roi sans divertissement
- Horseman on the RoofHistorical adventure during a cholera epidemic across Italian landscape