Paul's fig tree, Grotti Jean Pierre

In this funny and touching regional novel, Ernest the elder tells us the eventful life of the Molinier family and, through it, that of a typical village in the south of France. The old man will recount in his own way the changes his small community has experienced: desertification, wine sales slump, the arrival of hippies, uprooting of vineyards... The old man then makes the reader his confidant... Yes, but Ernest is a hunchback, a drunkard, unloved, and a virgin. Yes, but Ernest is lonely and talkative. He has so much on his heart, so much to say and shout! This superb novel by Jean-Pierre Grotti will resonate with each of us for a long time. The struggle of this small town for its survival is also the struggle of a part of us that refuses the abandonment of humanist values. That simply refuses the end of the village spirit. A hope, however... fig trees never die!