The Song of the World

by Jean Giono

Book Overview

A tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest. Sailor, a woodsman, has twin sons, the elder of whom is dead and the younger, the red-head, has gone missing upcountry where the powerful landowner Maudru holds sway. With his friend Antonio, the riverman, he goes in search of the boy, fearing that he too has been killed. On the way they come upon a lone girl giving birth in the woods at dead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865470383
• ISBN13: 9780865470385
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Unsung Classic of Great Power

This may be the most curious and powerful book you have never heard about. Operates at a strange subconscious level in a most primitive way. Deserves to be counted among the great classics of the 20th Century.

pure magic

This book, and Giono's Joy of Man's Desiring, are the two of the most beautiful, wise, transformative works of fiction that I know -- even in translation. The translations are excellent, but Giono's writing, and his vision, are among the wisest and most eloquent in any language -- it is these books that gave me the impetus to be a writer. If you care for nature, and the prospect of humankind living in genuine participation and reciprocity with earthly nature, these are your books. An essential tonic for our collective ecological insanity...