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Animalia / Jean-Baptiste Del Amo ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

by Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste.

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Grove Press, 2019.

Swine industry -- France -- Fiction.

Families -- France -- Fiction.

Farm life -- France -- Fiction.

Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.

Farms -- Fiction.

Swine -- Fiction.

France -- Fiction.

9780802147578 (hc)

Règne animal. English

1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.

371 p. ; 23 cm.

"Originally published in French in 2016 as Règne animal by Éditions Gallimard"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the French.

"The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. Éléonore passes her childhood with little heat and no running water, sharing a small room with her cousin Marcel, who does most of the physical labor on the farm. When World War I breaks out and the village empties, Éléonore gets a taste of the changes that will transform her world as the twentieth-century rolls on. As the reader moves into the second part of the novel, which takes place in the 1980s, the untamed world of Puy-Larroque seems gone forever. Now, Éléonore has herself aged into the role of matriarch, and the family is running a large industrial pig farm, where thousands of pigs churn daily through cycles of birth, growth, and death. Moments of sublime beauty and powerful emotion mix with the thoughtless brutality waged against animals that makes the old horrors of death and disease seem like simpler times. A dramatic and chilling tale of man and beast that recalls the naturalism of writers like Émile Zola, Animalia traverses the twentieth century as it examines man’s quest to conquer nature, critiques the legacy of modernity and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next, and questions whether we can hold out hope for redemption in this brutal world."--Publisher.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

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