When the Last Tree (Land of America) (French Edition)

The 2021 Awards: Top 100 Books of the Year from Lire Magazine "The time does not move in a given direction. It accumulates, that's all - in the body, in the world - like wood. Layer upon layer. Clear, then dark. Each resting on the one before it, impossible without the one before. Every triumph, every disaster forever inscribed in its structure." From the near future to the 1930s, Michael Christie constructs, like an architect, the genealogy of a family whose fate is darkened by secrets and intimately linked to that of the forests. 2038. The epidemic waves of the Great Withering have decimated all the trees and turned the planet into a desert of dust. 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 informs her that she may be the descendant of Harris Greenwood, a notorious timber mogul. Thus begins a sprawling and protean narrative whose unsuspected ramifications echo the events, dramas, and upheavals that have shaped our world. What will remain when the last tree has been felled? A family saga, a social and ecological novel, this book, as impressive as it is original, makes its author one of the most talented Canadian writers of his generation. 2021 Booksellers' Top List - Livres Hebdo What if the great American novel of this literary season came from Canada? Breath, many twists, memorable characters, the small story within the larger one. It's all there. Page of booksellers A first novel in the footsteps of Steinbeck. France Info A masterful and epic novel. When the last tree is not read. It is devoured. La République du Centre One word is necessary at the conclusion of this novel: impressive. Impressive in complexity, richness, subtlety, credibility, perspective, control, maturity. Le Hall du Livre bookstore

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