one of the jewels of SF!

Do not hesitate to go for it! This book will have to be given in reading at school.
A subject original treaty in short news: the decline and disappearance of humanity ... all narrated in a very gentle way, without violence (or almost), with this fine and calm that shines the most works Simak of (this author was able to kill a hero you an ignoble way while giving you the impression that everything was natural and in harmony with the world ...).