Hill
Giono, Jean / Eprile, Paul / Abram, David
An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world-a miming cat, a malevolent boar-displays a mind of its own. The four houses have a dozen residents-and then there is Gagou, a mute drifter. Janet, the eldest of the men, is bedridden, he feels snakes writhing in hi...