Human Nature

Serge Joncour's novel "The Farm" is a powerful reflection on the end of a rural way of life and the challenges of preserving the natural world. Set in France during apocalyptic storms, the novel follows the lives of a farming family and explores the delicate balance between human and natural worlds.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 19 August 2022
Publisher: Gallic Books

For the first time, he found himself alone on the farm, with no sound from the livestock or from anyone else, not even the slightest sign of life. And yet, within these walls, life had always won through.

"An outstanding, big, compassionate novel" Le Figaro 1999. As France prepares to see in a new millennium, the country is battered by apocalyptic storms. But holed up on the farm where he and his three sisters grew up, Alexandre seems less afraid of the weather than of the police turning up. Alone in the darkness, he reflects on the end of a rural way of life he once thought could never change. And his thoughts return to the baking hot summer of 1976, when he met Constanze, an environmental activist who fell for the beauty of the countryside and was prepared to use any means to save it.

Serge Joncour's impassioned, ambitious novel charts three decades of political, social, and environmental upheaval through the lives of a French farming family, as the delicate bond between the human and natural worlds threatens to snap.

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913547196