Une rivière verte et silencieuse

A young man, Primo, lives alone with his father, an unemployed worker. Material poverty and psychological destitution mark this story. The father and child imagine making their fortune by cultivating roses. Their electricity is cut off. They come to eat at a pub where a woman sings ribald songs. They steal candles from a church for light. That is is and it is great. A story of upsetting simplicity about the father-son relationship. From back cover.