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

2021 Palmarès 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. Clear, then dark. Each resting on the previous one, impossible without the one before. Each triumph, each disaster forever inscribed in its structure." From a near future to the 1930s, Michael Christie constructs, like an architect, the genealogy of a family with a destiny overshadowed by secrets and intimately linked to that of the forests.

1. The epidemic waves of the Great Decay have decimated all the trees and turned 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 old-growth forest. Jacinda works there as a guide, without any real hope for a better future. Until a friend tells her that she is the descendant of Harris Greenwood, a mogul of the wood with a shady reputation. This marks the beginning of a rich and protean narrative, whose unsuspected ramifications echo the events, dramas, and upheavals that have shaped our world. What will be left when the last tree has been felled?

A family fresco, a social and ecological novel, this impressive and original book makes its author one of the most talented Canadian writers of his generation. 2021 Booksellers' Awards - Livres Hebdo

And what if the great American novel of this literary season came from Canada? With its breath, numerous twists, memorable characters, the small story within the larger one. Everything is there. Le Figaro

A first 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 upon finishing this novel: impressive. Impressive in complexity, richness, subtlety, plausibility, perspective, mastery, maturity. Le Hall du livre bookstore

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