The Man Who Planted Trees, Giono, Jean

Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: The Man Who Planted Trees
ISBN: 1784878014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784878016
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elz?ard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elz?ard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after surviving the First World War, he visits the shepherd again and sees the young forest he has created spreading slowly over the valley. Elz?ard's solitary, silent work continues and the narrator returns year after year to see the miracle he is gradually creating: a verdant, green landscape that is a testament to one man's creative instinct.VINTAGE EARTH is a series of books that reveals our ever-changing relationship with the environment. These are stories old and young, set in worlds real or imagined, that allow us to explore our connection to the natural world. Transformative, wild, surprising and essential, these novels take on the most urgent story of our times.

Автор: Giono Jean
Название: Occupation Journal
ISBN: 1939810566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939810564
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A glimpse into life in collaborationist France during the Second World War.

Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: Ennemonde
ISBN: 1953861121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781953861122
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived

Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde's astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the people of the High Country, where vengeance is an art form, hearts are superfluous, and only boldness and cunning such as Ennemonde's can win the day. A gleeful, broad sardonic grin of a novel.

Roads move cautiously around the High Country... So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also of her sons, daughters, neighbors, lovers, and enemies, and especially of the mountains that stand guard behind their home in the Camargue. This is a place of stark and terrifying beauty, where violence strikes suddenly, whether from the hand of a neighbor or from the sky itself.

Giono captures every wrinkle, glare, and glance with wry delight, celebrating the uniquely tough people whose eyes sparkle with the cruel majesty of the landscape. Full of delectable detours and startling insights, Ennemonde will take you by the hand for an unforgettable tour of this master novelist's singular world.

Автор: Giono Jean
Название: To the Slaughterhouse
ISBN: 0720621011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780720621013
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 2338.00 р.
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Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: Open Road, The
ISBN: 1681375109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681375106
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.

South of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up casual work along the way, and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a card sharp and con man, whom he calls "the Artist." The action moves from place to place, and episode to episode, in truly picaresque fashion. Everything is told in the first person, present tense, by the vagabond Narrator, who goes unnamed. He himself is a curious combination of qualities--poetic, resentful, cynical, compassionate, flirtatious, and self-absorbed.

While The Open Road can be read as loosely strung entertainment, interspersed with caustic reflections, it can also be interpreted as a projection of the relationship between author, art, and audience. But it is ultimately an exploration of the tensions and boundaries between affection and commitment, and of the competing needs for solitude, independence, and human bonds. As always in Giono, the language is rich in natural imagery. Colourful idiomatic expressions--many of them unfamiliar even in France today--pepper every page.

"Eh, mister, a novel is a mirror, out strolling along the open road. Sometimes it reflects the azure of the heavens, sometimes the muck of the potholes." Whether Giono took his title and inspiration from this passage in Stendhal's Scarlet and Black, or from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road," both these sources course powerfully along The Open Road.

Автор: Magnan, Pierre
Название: Pour Saluer Giono
ISBN: 2070385892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782070385898
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Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: Hussard sur le toit (Le)
ISBN: 207036240X ISBN-13(EAN): 9782070362400
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Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: Man who planted trees
ISBN: 0720613345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780720613346
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Описание: Shepherd Elzard Bouffier lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet. After the death of his wife and child, he chooses to devote the rest of his life to a patient and anonymous endeavor, which ultimately adds beauty and sustenance to the human and animal communities in the mountains where he lives.

Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: The Man Who Planted Trees
ISBN: 1570625387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781570625381
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Giono, Jean
Название: L`homme qui plantait des arbres
ISBN: 2070794024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782070794027
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Описание: Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett supplied a monthly strip to the famed Marvel Comics `Doctor Who Magazine`. Now to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, Quinn & Howett return to take a look at all new Doctors alongside their personal pick of their very best strips.