← Jean GionoJoy of Man's Desiringby Jean GionoPastoral novel celebrating human connection within natureFind on Amazon↗About the authorJean GionoFrench 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.More by Jean GionoRegainNovel 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→Un roi sans divertissement→Horseman on the RoofHistorical adventure during a cholera epidemic across Italian landscape→