What to read this week? | Duty
In his fifth novel, Only the forest remainedDaniel Mason tells the story of a place by noting the traces left there by its inhabitants, whether human or not. Multiplying interconnected stories using an inventive structure, the novelist will draw on four centuries of history.
A man will one day choose to settle in the middle of the woods in a cabin. Over the years, the house will expand and transform, while the owners will succeed one another. From start to finish, the novel unfolds the cycle of nature and the passage of the seasons.
Daniel Mason confirms this to us: just like his characters, we belong to the earth, and not the other way around.
