When the Last Tree (Earth of America) (French Edition)

Palmarès 2021: The 100 books of the year by the magazine Lire

"The time does not go in a given direction. It accumulates, that's all - in the body, in the world - like wood. Layer after layer. Light, then dark. Each resting on the previous one, impossible without the one before. Every triumph, every disaster forever inscribed in its structure."

From the near future to the 1930s, Michael Christie builds, like an architect, the genealogy of a family whose destiny is overshadowed by secrets and intimately linked to that of the forests.

1. The epidemic waves of the Great Withering have decimated all the trees and transformed the planet into a desert of dust. One of the last refuges is a wooded island off the coast of British Columbia, which welcomes wealthy tourists who come to admire the ultimate primary forest. Jacinda works there as a guide, without any real hope of a better future. Until a friend tells her that she may be the descendant of Harris Greenwood, a notorious timber magnate. Thus begins a sprawling and protean narrative whose unsuspected ramifications echo the events, dramas, and upheavals that have shaped our world. What will remain when the last tree has been felled?

A family fresco, a social and ecological novel, this book, as impressive as it is original, makes its author one of the most talented Canadian writers of his generation. Palmarès des libraires 2021 - Livres Hebdo

What if the great American novel of this literary season came from Canada? Breath, numerous twists and turns, memorable characters, the small story within the big one. Everything is there. Page des libraires

A debut novel in the footsteps of Steinbeck. France Info

A masterful and epic novel. When the last tree is not read. It is devoured. La République du Centre

One word is necessary at the end of this novel: impressive. Impressive in complexity, richness, subtlety, plausibility, perspective, mastery, maturity. Librairie Le Hall du livre.

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