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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
Original publication date
2012-10-30 (1e édition originale américaine, HarperCollins, New York)
2013-08-21 (1e traduction et édition française, Littérature étrangère, Rivages)
2014-09-24 (Réédition française, Poche, Littérature étrangère, Rivages)
Media reviews
Climate change, for every good and topical reason, headlines Barbara Kingsolver’s marvelous eighth novel. But not to be undersold are its characters, rendered so believably and affectionately, they warm the atmosphere on their own.
...... Kingsolver's masterly evocation of an age – ours, here, now – stumbling wilfully blind towards the abyss is an elegy not just for the endangered monarch butterfly, but for the ambitious, flawed species that conjured the mass extinction of which its loss is a part. Urgent issues demand
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important art. Flight Behaviour rises – with conscience and majesty – to the occasion of its time. Show Less
Awards
Women's Prize for Fiction (Longlist — 2013)
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2014)
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (Shortlist — 2013)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Fiction — 2013)
John Gardner Fiction Book Award (Shortlist — Shortlist — 2013)
Weatherford Award (Fiction — 2012)
Orion Book Award (Finalist — 2013)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Fiction — 2012)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction & Poetry — 2012)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (2012)