Roots of the sky
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Roots of the sky
19.99 €
15.99 €
The famous French classic writer Romain Gary is a two-time winner of the Goncourt Prize. He refused to accept the second one, for his book “The Whole Life Ahead,” signed under the pseudonym Emile Ajar. Gary received his first and main Goncourt for The Roots of Heaven, perhaps the first “ecological” novel in history, published in 1956, when the word “ecology” was still little known. Gary chose Africa as the setting for the action, where he served in the Free French Air Force during World War II.
A former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp named Morel comes to Chad to fight against the shooting of elephants. Soon he has like-minded people from different countries, including a German girl, Minna, who experienced violence and the loss of her loved one during the war. Seeing the futility of appeals and petitions, Morel and his associates take action: they attack hunters and burn their plantations. The authorities throw all their forces into capturing the rebels, but Morel is elusive…
The novel, in which the protection of nature gradually develops into the protection of man and his right to exist, is full of bitterness and incredible optimism.
A former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp named Morel comes to Chad to fight against the shooting of elephants. Soon he has like-minded people from different countries, including a German girl, Minna, who experienced violence and the loss of her loved one during the war. Seeing the futility of appeals and petitions, Morel and his associates take action: they attack hunters and burn their plantations. The authorities throw all their forces into capturing the rebels, but Morel is elusive…
The novel, in which the protection of nature gradually develops into the protection of man and his right to exist, is full of bitterness and incredible optimism.
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