Colette Olive, Co-founder
"Pierre Michon's dazzling conclusion to La Grande Beune (1996) lends new intensity to an erotic, mythological tale. A publishing event!"

In the early '60s, a young schoolmaster is dispatched to a village in Périgord, the land of prehistoric caves between Les Eyzies and Montignac. Dense, tense, full of dazzle and sweep, ths novel makes the region the raw site of the search for love. Yvonne, the beautiful owner of the local tobacco shop, bears inside her a scorching desire. The mystery of the difference between the sexes: the origin of the world.