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Nature humaine

by Serge Joncour

Prix Femina · 2020 · Winner
FlammarionLiterary Fiction

Award History

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Prix Femina2020Winner

About This Book

Set on a farm in the Lot region of France between 1976 and 1999, follows a farming family across a period of enormous technological change, as both an intimate family drama and a meditation on modernity and the transformation of the French countryside.

About the Author

Serge Joncour is a French novelist born in 1961 in Paris. He has been publishing fiction since the late 1990s and is one of the most reliable presences on the French literary scene, consistently producing well-crafted novels that blend narrative pleasure with more serious thematic concerns. His work often explores tensions between nature and civilization, progress and loss. Read more →

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