L'eau Des Collines (Jean De Florette Et Manon Des Sources), 2 Volumes
by:
Marcel Pagnol (author)
ISBN:
9780318519883 (0318519887)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
20th Century,
Roman,
France,
French Literature
Jean de Florette: The Water of the Hills, première partieJean de Florette is the first part of Marcel Pagnol's moving, humorous, mournful, triumphant two-part novel titled The Water of the Hills. His story, set in the bucolic hillside of Provence, is a lesson in the power of nature- of the land in i...
If you're tired of these tricky post-modern novels, with their antiheroes and unreliable narrators and structural cleverness, then here's the perfect antidote. A really good, old-fashioned story, where you can unashamedly identify with the main characters, grit your teeth at the bad guys' perfidy, a...