Hill

by Jean Giono

Book Overview

An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world--a miming cat, a malevolent boar--displays a mind of its own. The four houses have a dozen residents--and then there is Gagou, a mute drifter. Janet, the eldest of the men, is bedridden; he feels snakes writhing in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590179188
• ISBN13: 9781590179185
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"