by Jacques Mazeau · Le Grand Livre Du Mois · tapa dura · ISBN 9782702877616
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«La ferme d'en bas» is the rural novel by Jacques Mazeau, published by Le Grand Livre Du Mois in hardcover (218 pages, in French).
Rural saga in Nivernais at the start of the 20th century. Auguste, a taciturn farmer determined to expand his farm, lives with his wife Marcelline and their children Pierre and Anna. In 1910 Julia is born; as she becomes a teenager she turns into her father's favorite daughter, and jealousy and village rumors erupt when the priest points her out.
First installment of a trilogy; the other volumes are La Dénonciation and Le Retour de Jean. Published in 2002.
For readers of rural fiction and family sagas set in early 20th-century France.
French writer, journalist and comics artist
