Book description
At the twilight of the stone age, an isolated village lives in relative
prosperity. A young man, a one-armed dreamer unable to work the stone,
elects himself the village storyteller, and hunts restlessly, far and
wide, for inspiration. But the information he finds and the people he
meets warn of a fissure in their world: the advent of a new age and the
coming of a metal that will change their community's life irrevocably.
'A tour de force, finely and firmly written. Crace is a virtuoso' Frank
Kermode 'His work is among the most original in comtemporary fiction'
The Times
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia,
Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year;
shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book
Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His
novels have been translated into twenty languages. In 1999 Jim Crace
was elected to the Royal Society of Literature. -six
