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The Gift of Stones - Softcover

Crace, Jim

 
9780330453325: The Gift of Stones
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330453327 ISBN 13: 9780330453325
Verlag: Picador, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

‘The intense story of the pre-historical moment when stone yielded to bronze . . . Crace is a virtuoso’ Frank Kermode, New York Times

A coastal community live prosperously crafting fine stone tools. But their proud insularity is breached by raiders, and in the violence a boy loses his arm. Useless as a knapper, he finds a role as the village storyteller, roaming far and returning home with fantastically embellished tales. When the arrival of a new metal threatens all their livelihoods, his fearless imagination becomes a lifesaving gift.

‘His style is as simple as it is beautiful . . . Crace reveals the dignity in human labour and the power of the passing of time’

Herald

‘A deceptively simple book that explores profound ideas with a rare delicacy of touch’ Los Angeles Times

‘Bewitching . . . brings a lost world to life and imbues it with a sense of wonder’ Sunday Times

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330453327
ISBN 13 
9780330453325
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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