Linden Editions signs 'groundbreaking' novel from Agnès de Clairville

Linden Editions, a newly established publishing house specialising in translated fiction, has signed Corps de Ferme, a "groundbreaking" novel from Agnès de Clairville, translated by Frank Wynne. 

Founders and publishers Tasja Dorkofikis, Nermin Mollaoğlu and Geraldine D’Amico acquired English language rights from Chrysothemis Armefti from 2 Seas Agency on behalf of HarperCollins France. The novel will be published in the UK in 2025. 

Narrated through the perspective of farm animals, Corps de Ferme tells the story of a family struggling to stay afloat. 

D’Amico said: "Corps de Ferme is a striking novel, totally original and gripping. Agnès de Clairville avoids any anthropomorphising and touches on a huge variety of topics. She knows the rural world inside out and questions our relationship to other living creatures as well as our very humanity."

Wynne added: "I am thrilled to be working on Agnès de Clairville’s Corps de Ferme — a lucid, angry novel about the rigours of farming life. Daringly, the multiple voices that narrate her second novel are those of the animals. But this is no Orwellian satire, nor is it a mawkish piece of anthropomorphism. It is a spare, meticulously detailed bucolic tragedy that pulses with passion and with anger."