← Jean GionoThe Song of the Worldby Jean GionoLyrical novel about river boatmen and the landscape they inhabitFind 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→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→