Two agronomy students, distressed like their entire generation by the ecological crisis, refuse to be defeatist and set out to change the world. Kevin, the son of farm workers, launches a vermicomposting start-up and dons the uniform of the perfect defector on the green capitalism scene. Arthur, a child of the bourgeoisie, tries to regenerate his family's pesticide-ridden fields, but comes up against the realities of rural life. In the course of their apprenticeship, the two friends put their ideals to the test. From the Normandy bocage to Silicon Valley, from anarchist cells to ministerial salons, Gaspard Koenig recounts the paradoxes of our time - social mobility and class contempt, the promise of progress and ecological insurrection, impossible love and heroic despair... A story of land and men, in the great vein of realist literature.
The Transfuge prize for the best French novel of 2023 went to Gaspard Koenig for Humus (Éditions de l'Observatoire).

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