The autobiography of a beech
Grey Trunk is a mountain beech. He is more than four centuries old when he begins to narrate his existence and that of his forest, stories of natural rhythms and calamities, courage and fate, in an alternation of joy and pain in which nature never gives up.
A novel narrated from the point of view of trees, long-lived and wonderful beings, so different from us; but all it takes is a change of perspective to discover that perhaps it is humans who are 'aliens', no longer able to communicate with the environment, of which they feel themselves to be only the masters.
A novel that gives a voice to nature as it is, without inventing almost anything except the ability of trees to communicate and feel. A possibility that perhaps might have its own basis in truth.
The first volume of "The Soul of the Mountain"
'He' and 'she', not 'it'
In this novel, the trees are referred to as 'he' or 'she' to emphasise their individuality.
This is a story in which the trees talk about themselves, address each other, and certainly perceive themselves as individuals.
The Author decided to do the same when writing about them.
Settings
The novel is set somewhere in the mountains.
You can imagine Grey Trunk and his forest in the Alps between Switzerland, Italy, and France, but also in Austria, New Zealand, or elsewhere, if the descriptions remind you of places you know; all you need are high mountains, forests - mixed forests and beech forests - a village down in the valley and, far, far away, the shadow of a city.
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