A King Alone
Giono, Jean / Waters, Alyson / Stewart, Susan
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first timeThis is the first English-language translation of Jean Giono's 1947 masterpiece, Un roi sans divertissement, A King Without Diversion, which takes its title from Pascal's famous remark that "a man without diversions is a man with misery to spare." Giono's novel is an existential...