Des Grives Aux Loups

Synopsis of Des Grives Aux Loups

«Des Grives Aux Loups» is Claude Michelet's rural novel, published in paperback by Robert Laffont in 1979 (468 pages, in French).

The action takes place in the French countryside and follows a peasant family over several generations. The novel reflects how economic and social changes transform their way of life, and how the relationship with the land is caught between inherited tradition and the arrival of modernity.

First installment of the «Des Grives Aux Loups» saga; the following volumes are «Les palombes ne passeront plus» and «L'appel des engoulevents».

For those who enjoy rural novels and family sagas set in France.