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Henri Bosco (1888-1976) was a French writer who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. His family was of Provencal, Ligurian, and Piedmontese origin, and much of his work focused on Provencal life. His novel Malicroix was published by NYRB Classics in 2020. Joyce Zonana is a writer and translator. She is the author of a memoir, Dream Homes- From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey, and her writing has been published in The Hudson Review, Signs, and Meridians, among other publications. She translated Henri Bosco's novel Malicroix for NYRB Classics.
"""The Child and the River brims with lovely nostalgic pleasures….The joy of The Child and the River comes from Pascalet’s gentle, limpid observations of his time on the river, which are generally free of intrusive, muddy 'adult' meditations."" —Edwin Turner, Biblioklept ""[Full] of small beauties, like a multifaceted gem....a gentle, meta-fairy-tale about the imagination’s capacity to bring about the very realities it craves, whether we need friendship, adventure, salvation or love.... Zonana retains the conversational, diaristic qualities of Bosco’s prose along with the intensity of its noticings, clearly marking the subtle shifts when the external world of nature becomes the internal world of imagination."" — Marco Roth, The New York Times “A small gem from Bosco, this book has been described as a French Huckleberry Finn even though a comparison with Thoreau’s Walden might make more sense. . . . Bosco’s story carries readers into an innocent childhood world as easily as the current carries the boys on their adventures.” —Kirkus Reviews “The poetry of this ecological tale lies in the balance between the power of the forbidden and a quest for the lost childhood paradise that Bosco sought all his life, in his writing and in his dreams.” —Le Temps “Henri Bosco is the greatest dreamer of our time.” —Gaston Bachelard"
