

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...
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Jean Giono, the author of the famous ecological parable The Man Who Planted Trees, also produced one of the most affecting accounts of war ever written. To the Slaughterhouse is one of his finest novels. Conscription reaches into the hills as the First World War comes to a small...