by Jesmyn Ward · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714453167
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«Bois sauvage» is the novel by Jesmyn Ward, published by Belfond in paperback (336 pages, in French).
In an impoverished and forgotten Mississippi, teenager Esch tries to hold her family together: a father who takes refuge in alcohol, brothers trying to get ahead through basketball or fighting dogs, and an unexpected pregnancy she doesn't know how to reveal. As Hurricane Katrina approaches, the novel weaves Greek mythology and rural misery into a chronicle of resistance and care.
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction, it is the French translation of the original novel 'Salvage the Bones', by Jean-Luc Piningre.
For readers of literary fiction seeking a social portrait of the American South on the eve of Hurricane Katrina.
Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
