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A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn ?esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family?s wishes.The Child and the River tells a simple but haunting tale. Pascalet, a boy growing up on a farm in the south of France, is permitted by his parents to play wherever he likes?only never by the river. Prohibition turns into Pascalet dreams of nothing so much as heading down to the river, and one day, with his parents away, he does. Wandering along the bank, intoxicated with newfound freedom, he falls asleep in a rowboat and wakes to find himself caught in rapids and run aground on an island where a band of Gypsies has pitched camp together with their trained bear. Hiding in the underbrush, Pascalet observes that the group includes a boy his age, who, after receiving a whipping, has been left tied to a post. This is Gatzo, and as soon as night falls, Pascalet sets him loose. The boys

Author : Henri Bosco

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ISBN-10 : 9781681377421

ISBN-13 : 9781681377421