Placeholder text

Go to cart

Jean Giono A King Alone

By Giono, Jean (1895-1970)

Jean Giono A King Alone Action & Adventure

Jean Giono A King Alone

0 - Default Title
Description
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to disappear. Soon the village is paralyzed by terror, which gives way to relief and eager anticipation when the outsider Langlois arrives to investigate. What he discovers, however, will leave no one reassured, and his reappearance in the village a few years later, now assigned the task of guarding it from wolves, awakens those troubling memories. A man of few words, a regal manner, and military efficiency, Langlois baffles and fascinates the villagers, whose different responses to him shape Jean Giono's increasingly charged narrative. This novel about a tiny community at the dangerous edge of things and a man of law who is a man alone could be described as a metaphysical Western. It unfolds with the uncanny inevitability and disturbing intensity of a dream.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2019-06-25
Publication Date:
2019-06-25
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1681373092
ISBN13:
9781681373096
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
400 g
Height:
210 cm
Width:
130 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out