by Barbara Kingsolver · Rivages · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782743611712
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«Une rivière sur la lune» is the novel by Barbara Kingsolver, published by Rivages in paperback (388 pages, in French).
Codi returns to Grace, her town in Arizona, to care for her sick father. There she confronts the absence of her sister, a volunteer in war-torn Nicaragua, and joins the neighbourhood struggle against a mining company threatening the ecological balance. Her involvement helps her rebuild her life and recover the memory of a childhood marked by a double tragedy.
French edition translated by Guillemette Belleteste, in the Rivages poche / Bibliothèque étrangère collection (No. 439). The original work, Animal Dreams, was published in 1990.
For readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs, with an interest in stories of family, roots and environmental activism.
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.
