Louis Roubien is seventy, the richest farmer in Saint-Jory, a village up the Garonne from Toulouse, and his crowded, happy household seems blessed. Then the river rises. From the rooftops he watches the flood take his farm and, one after another, the people he loves, in a story drawn from the great flood of 1875.
A short, harrowing novella of natural disaster by the master of French naturalism. Download the free EPUB.