When the Last Tree (America's Terra) (French Edition)

2021 Palmarès of 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. Every triumph, every disaster permanently inscribed in its structure." From the near future to the 1930s, Michael Christie constructs, like an architect, the genealogy of a family whose destiny is darkened by secrets and intimately linked to that of the forests.

1. The epidemic waves of the Great Withering have decimated all trees and transformed the planet into a dusty desert. 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, with no real hope of a better future. Until a friend tells her that she is the descendant of Harris Greenwood, a timber tycoon with a notorious reputation. Thus begins a rich 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 impressive and original book makes its author one of the most talented Canadian writers of his generation. 2021 Booksellers' Awards - Livres Hebdo

What if this year's great American novel of the literary season came from Canada? It has the scope, numerous twists and turns, memorable characters, the small story within the big one. It has it all. Librarians' page

A debut novel in the footsteps of Steinbeck. France Info

A masterful and epic novel. 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. Le Hall du Livre Bookstore

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