L'arbre

by Pierre Magnan

Connaissez-vous la légende du chêne, immense et majestueux, qui domine le petit village de Montfuron depuis la nuit des temps ? On raconte que, lorsque la mort rôde, l'arbre se met à brûler... Les étranges pouvoirs de cet oracle mystérieux déchaînent les peurs, les passions et les convoitises. Certains sont prêts à tout, même à tuer, pour s'en emparer.

142 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Pierre Magnan was a bestselling French author of detective novels steeped in the sights and sounds of his beloved Provence; to readers, his sleuth, Commissaire Laviolette, was as indelibly linked to the land of lavender as Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse was to the colleges of Oxford.

Magnan’s autumnal years were prolific; he wrote more than 30 books and saw his novels adapted for French television and cinema. He was never afraid to experiment and shifted easily to non-fiction, writing, amongst other publications, a gentle portrait of Giono (Pour Saluer Giono, 1990), a study of Provençal novels (Les Romans de ma Provence, 1998) and two volumes of memoirs. In The Essence of Provence (1998) he followed the story of L’Occitane from roadside soap stand to globally known brand. “La Provence was present in all his books,” noted Marie-Laure Goumet, his editor at Robert Laffont.