To the Slaughterhouse

To the Slaughterhouse - Peter Owen Modern Classics (2021)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Long regarded as one of France's finest writers of the twentieth century, Jean Giono is best known for his ecological bestseller The Man Who Planted Trees, but this neglected classic, published in 1931, is his masterpiece. Set during the First World War, conscription comes to a rural Provençal community, and its young men leave for the trenches on the Western Front. Based on his experiences at the battle of Verdun, at which he was one of only eleven survivors from his company, Giono produced one of the most powerful and affecting accounts of war ever written. This unflinchingly realistic yet at times intensely poetic novel grimly contrasts the destruction of men, land and animals at the front with the disintegration of daily life and accepted morality back home in a remote community with its own savagery, lusts and yearnings. Giono ends his masterwork with a message of hope, reflecting his faith in the ability of the earth to renew itself, which readers of The Man Who Planted Trees will find familiar.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780720621013
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Imprint: Peter Owen
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: -1g
Height: 197mm
Width: 127mm