by Barbara Kingsolver · ISBN 9782743617844
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«Un jardin dans les Appalaches» is Barbara Kingsolver's chronicle with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, published by Rivages in paperback (520 pages).
Barbara Kingsolver settles with her family in the Appalachian Mountains and decides to eat for a year only homegrown or locally produced food. The book, told month by month, combines her account with recipes and comments from her daughter and husband, and argues that a local, seasonal diet is possible and tasty in the countryside and in the city.
Original work: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007). Translation by Claire Buchbinder. Book Sense Book of the Year Award (2008).
Will appeal to readers of memoirs and essays, and to those seeking reflections on sustainable food, gardening, and environmentalism.
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
