Harvest: shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Feb 2013 · Pan Macmillan
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a film adaptation starring Caleb Landry Jones. Jim Crace creates a haunting world in Harvest.
‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian
‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a dangerously magnetic woman – arrive on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk’s village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.
But something even darker is at the heart of Walter’s story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .
‘Terrible, lyrical beauty that is nothing like any other novel I have ever read’ – Spectator
‘He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time’ – Colum McCann
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian
‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a dangerously magnetic woman – arrive on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk’s village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.
But something even darker is at the heart of Walter’s story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .
‘Terrible, lyrical beauty that is nothing like any other novel I have ever read’ – Spectator
‘He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time’ – Colum McCann
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a film adaptation starring Caleb Landry Jones. Jim Crace creates a haunting world in Harvest.
‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian
‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a vil...
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A detailed evocative unfolding
About the author
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Melody and Eden. He lives in Worcestershire.
Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Ci...
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