Terre d'Amérique (French Edition)

Palmarès 2021: The 100 Books of the Year by Lire magazine

"The time does not move in one given direction. It accumulates, that's all - in the body, in the world - like wood. Layer after layer. Light, then dark. Each resting on the previous one, impossible without the one before. Each triumph, each disaster forever etched into its structure." From the near future to the 1930s, Michael Christie builds, like an architect, the genealogy of a family with a destiny overshadowed by secrets and intimately linked to that of the forests.

1. The epidemic waves of the Grand Withering have decimated all the trees and turned the planet into a dust desert. One of the last refuges is a wooded island off the coast of British Columbia, which welcomes wealthy tourists who come to admire the ultimate old-growth forest. Jacinda works there as a guide, with no real hope for a better future. Until a friend tells her that she is the descendant of Harris Greenwood, a notorious timber magnate. This sets off a sprawling and protean narrative, the unsuspected ramifications of which echo the events, the dramas, and the upheavals that have shaped our world. What will be left when the last tree has been felled?

A family epic, a social and ecological novel, this impressive and original book makes its author one of the most talented Canadian writers of his generation. Palmarès des libraires 2021 - Livres Hebdo.

What if the great American novel of this literary season came from Canada? With the sweep, numerous twists and turns, memorable characters, the small story within the big. Everything is here. Page des libraires.

A debut novel in the footsteps of Steinbeck. France Info.

A masterful and epic novel. When the last tree is not just read. It is devoured. La République du Centre.

One word is necessary at the end of this novel: impressive. Impressive in complexity, richness, subtlety, plausibility, perspective, control, maturity. Librairie Le Hall du livre.

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