Lowly Creatures: A Novel

In this award-winning French novel, two friends from contrasting economic backgrounds, one privileged and one working-class, are drawn and eventually divided by their shared passion for earthworms and their mission to save the environment-young men whose parallel destinies illustrate the difficulty of entering adulthood in a world threatened by ecological disaster.

Lowly Creatures follows the twin destinies of two young men, Kevin and Arthur, each who has vowed to dedicate his life to earthw...