THE WAKE by Paul Kingsnorth ( 9781783520985 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE WAKE

By:

Paul Kingsnorth

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1783520981

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9781783520985

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Publisher:

CORNERSTONE

Pub. date:

30 April, 2015

Pages:

384

Description:

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, this critically acclaimed novel was the first crowdfunded novel to appear on the longlist. The Wake is also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize.

Synopsis:

A post-apocalyptic novel set in 1066 - unlike anything else you will read this year...Everyone knows the date of the Battle of Hastings. Far fewer people know what happened next...Set in the three years after the Norman invasion, The Wake tells the story of a fractured band of guerilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Carefully hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of resistance that spread across England in the decade after 1066, it is a story of the brutal shattering of lives, a tale of lost gods and haunted visions, narrated by a man of the Lincolnshire fens bearing witness to the end of his world. Written in what the author describes as 'a shadow tongue' - a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable for the modern reader - The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past.

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Prizes:

Winner of Bookseller Industry Awards Book of the Year 2015 Winner of Folio Prize 2014 Short-listed for Goldsmiths Prize 2014 Long-listed for Folio Prize 2015 Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014

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