The Song of the World

by Jean Giono

Description

In a remote woodcutters’ camp beyond Christol’s Pass, a family’s grief deepens when a landslide kills their son and their remaining twin, Danis, disappears into the wild Rebeillard country. As Sailor searches for answers, he joins forces with Antonio—“Goldenmouth,” a rugged fisherman whose compassion is as hard-won as the landscape itself. Their pursuit becomes a tense, human drama of love, loyalty, and entanglement with powerful local forces, while the natural world—dangerous, indifferent, and strangely consoling—shapes every choice they make. Jean Giono’s lyrical, earthbound storytelling turns the search into a meditation on loss and endurance, where the boundaries between survival, desire, and fate blur in the song of the world around them.

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BrightSummaries.com

Published Aug 25, 2017

21 pages

ISBN: 9782808000802

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First Published

1937

Language

fra

Translation

From: fra

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