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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THIS TRANSLATION has been a labor of love and the focus of my creative life for a number of years. Without the involvement of many others, it would never have come to fruition.

In particular, I’d like to thank Jacques Mény, president of the Association les Amis de Jean Giono, for his unwavering encouragement and support; Edmund White, for his warm appreciation; Wendell Block, for his insight; the late Walter Redfern, for his generosity; Edwin Frank and Susan Barba of NYRB, for their vision and commitment; and Debbie Honickman, my fellow traveler, for her acumen, and for the beauty of her art.

— PAUL EPRILE

Creemore, Ontario, 2015