The House in the Forest

Proof copy. 8vo. 186pp. Pictorial wraps.

Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside. Author's second novel, originally published by Gallimard in 2001 as Le Commandement.

The tantalising riches having eluded him, an 18th-century Frenchman returns from the Caribbean to build a shack in the forest within sight of his mother's house, too dejected to shatter her dreams of a happy reunion. A lyrical meditation on love, loss and the passing of time.