Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

A haunting and powerful novel from one of France's most exciting and talented young writers. Animalia tells the confronting and compelling story of a peasant family in south-west France as they develop their plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of two world wars, economic disasters, and the...

From the author of the extraordinary Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, comes a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence. Set on a hostile and glorious mountainside haunted by the past, The Son of Man is a story of profound complexity. In the soft morning light, a man, a woman, and a child drive...