In the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a
burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm's owner,
Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of
his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the
bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnabas is forced to reach
out to the farming community for assistance. But resentment simmers
over Matthew Peoples' death, and Barnabas and his family begin to
believe their efforts at recovery are being sabotaged. Barnabas is
determined to hold firm. Yet his son Billy struggles under the
weight of a terrible secret, and his wife Eskra is suffocated by
the uncertainty surrounding their future. And as Barnabas fights
ever harder for what is rightfully his, his loved ones are drawn
ever closer to a fate that should never have been theirs. In The
Black Snow, Paul Lynch takes the pastoral novel and - with the
calmest of hands - tears it apart. With beautiful, haunting prose,
Lynch illuminates what it means to be alive during crisis, and puts
to the test our deepest certainties about humankind.
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