Second Harvest
  • Published:
    Sep-1999
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    121
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Panturle lives in the village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. He is a huge man: "When he met a living animal, he looked at it without moving: it was a fox, a hare, or a big snake in the rubble. He did not move; he took his time. He knew that somewhere in a bush there was a wire noose which strangled necks that passed by." Aubignane was a deserted village. That autumn Gaubert the smithy, "a little man all moustache", left; and before the winter was out the well-sinker's widow had left as well.
Then only Panturle remained, a man made morose almost to the point of madness by his solitude. He gave up planting and lived off what he could catch. Then out of the blue a woman arrived, someone to live for, someone to till the soil for and plant new seed. Even a village can be raised from the dead.
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    • First Edition
    • Sep-1999
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1860462669
    • ISBN13: 9781860462665



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