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The Wake


The Wake



von: Paul Kingsnorth

8,49 €

Verlag: Unbound Digital
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 30.04.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781783521456
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 384

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<p><b>Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014 and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year Award 2015. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.</b></p>
<p>A post-apocalyptic novel set a thousand years ago, <i>The Wake</i> tells the story of Buccmaster of Holland, a free farmer of Lincolnshire, owner of three oxgangs, a man clinging to the Old Gods as the world changes drastically around him. After losing his sons at the Battle of Hastings and his wife and home to the invading Normans, Buccmaster begins to gather together a band of 'grene men', who take up arms to resist their brutal invaders. </p>
<p>Written in a 'shadow tongue' – a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable for the modern reader – <i>The Wake</i> is a landmark in historical fiction and looks set to become a modern classic.</p>
Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014 and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year Award 2015. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
"A resonant, eloquent ballad of English identity, pride and fierce independence. It is a thrilling story. Read it out loud. It is like nothing else"
Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014 and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year Award 2015. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Paul Kingsnorth is the author of two non-fiction books
<i>, One No, Many Yeses </i>(2003) and the highly acclaimed
<i>Real England </i>(2008), as well as a collection of poetry,
<i>Kidland </i>(2011). A former journalist and deputy editor of
<i>The Ecologist </i>magazine, he has won several awards for his poetry and essays. In 2009, he co-founded the Dark Mountain Project, an international network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for troubled times. Much of his writing can be found online at www.paulkingsnorth.net.
<i>The Wake </i>is his first novel.

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