by Annie Proulx · Harper Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007232017
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«Barkskins» is the historical novel by Annie Proulx, published by Harper Collins in hardcover (736 pages, in English).
In seventeenth-century New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, two penniless young Frenchmen, work as woodcutters for a feudal lord. The novel follows their descendants over three centuries, between timber exploitation and indigenous cultures, across North America, Europe, China and New Zealand, until the exhaustion of the forests.
Annie Proulx is the author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. Barkskins was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in the relationship between humanity and nature over the centuries.
Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E. A. Proulx.
