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eden (Paperback)
Jim Crace
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R265
R207
Discovery Miles 2 070
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'No one is better . . . eden sees Crace at the top of his game' -
Telegraph Trouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an
eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields,
orchards and lakes, and serving their angelic masters. But now one
of the gardeners has escaped, breaching the walls and making her
way into the world beyond; a land of poverty, sickness and death -
as well as liberty. The angels know there are those who would go to
the ends of the earth to find her. Perhaps another fall is coming .
. . 'Vivid and poetic . . . Crace writes with great flair and
inimitable imagination' - Financial Times 'Since announcing his
retirement in 2013, Jim Crace has had more comebacks than Kanye
West, something for which we should all be thankful' - Spectator
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eden (Hardcover)
Jim Crace
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R531
R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
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'No one is better . . . eden sees Crace at the top of his game' -
Telegraph Trouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an
eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields,
orchards and lakes, and serving their angelic masters. But now one
of the gardeners has escaped, breaching the walls and making her
way into the world beyond; a land of poverty, sickness and death -
as well as liberty. The angels know there are those who would go to
the ends of the earth to find her. Perhaps another fall is coming .
. . 'Vivid and poetic . . . Crace writes with great flair and
inimitable imagination' - Financial Times 'Since announcing his
retirement in 2013, Jim Crace has had more comebacks than Kanye
West, something for which we should all be thankful' - Spectator
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eden (Paperback)
Jim Crace
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R365
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
Save R80 (22%)
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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'No one is better . . . eden sees Crace at the top of his game' -
Telegraph Trouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an
eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields,
orchards and lakes, and serving their angelic masters. But now one
of the gardeners has escaped, breaching the walls and making her
way into the world beyond; a land of poverty, sickness and death -
as well as liberty. The angels know there are those who would go to
the ends of the earth to find her. Perhaps another fall is coming .
. . 'Vivid and poetic . . . Crace writes with great flair and
inimitable imagination' - Financial Times 'Since announcing his
retirement in 2013, Jim Crace has had more comebacks than Kanye
West, something for which we should all be thankful' - Spectator
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Arcadia (Paperback)
Jim Crace
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R316
R274
Discovery Miles 2 740
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Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire
from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively
insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that
memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily
at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains
in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on
the city - one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city
left on him. Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys
his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse.
Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds
that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so
easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that
remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a
mark on the city - one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the
city left on him.
Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner
of the 2014 James Tait Black Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 Man
Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted
for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction As late
summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a
village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a
dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders
triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village
unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear,
cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of
witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's
story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .
FROM THE MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF HARVEST 'The Melody takes
its place among his finest [novels] . . . an ecological fable for
modern times' Guardian 'Seductively atmospheric . . . deeply
moving' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Observer Alfred Busi, famed in his
town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his
wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has
always called home. Then one night Busi is attacked by a creature
he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is
convinced that what assaulted him was no animal, but a child,
'innocent and wild', and his words fan the flames of old rumour -
of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the
town - and new controversy: the town's paupers, the feral wastrels
at its edges, must be dealt with. Once and for all. Lyrical and
warm, intimate and epic, The Melody by Jim Crace tracks the few
days that will see Busi and the town he loves altered irrevocably.
This is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the
loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps
into real life. And it is a political novel too - a rallying cry to
protect those we persecute.
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The Melody (Paperback)
Jim Crace
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R250
R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
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From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest.
Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has always called home. Then one night Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that what assaulted him was no animal, but a child, ‘innocent and wild’, and his words fan the flames of old rumour – of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town – and new controversy: the town’s paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges, must be dealt with. Once and for all.
Lyrical and warm, intimate and epic, The Melody by Jim Crace tracks the few days that will see Busi and the town he loves altered irrevocably. This is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life. And it is a political novel too – a rallying cry to protect those we persecute.
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Eden (Paperback)
Jim Crace
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R505
R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States
has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the
country, families have traveled toward the one hope left: passage
on a ship to Europe. As Franklin Lopez makes his way towards the
ocean, he finds Margaret, a sick woman shunned to die in isolation.
Tentatively, the two join forces, heading towards their future.
With striking prose and a deep understanding of the American ethos,
Jim Crace, one of our most consistently ambitious writers, creates
in "The Pesthouse" a masterful tale of the human drive to endure.
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Genesis (Paperback)
Jim Crace
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R498
R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
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A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning
author of Being Dead
The timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood,
where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive
fame. But in the theaters and the restaurants of his own city,
"Lix" is celebrated and admired for his looks, for his voice, and
for his unblemished private life. He has succeeded in courting
popularity everywhere, this handsome hero of the left, this
charming darling of the right, this ever-twisting weather vane.
A perfect life? No, he is blighted. He has been blighted since his
teens, for every woman he sleeps with bears his child. So now it is
Mouetta's turn. Their baby's due in May. Lix wants to say he feels
besieged. Another child? To be so fertile is a curse...
In" Genesis," Jim Crace, winner of the National Book Critics'
Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, charts the sexual
history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a
city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.
""Signals of Distress" is an engrossing book...Crace is a genius at
making round and really human characters, and his characters make
his novel superb."--"Newsday"
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the
English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually
disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a
hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a
steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig
who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African
slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable,
tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising
novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and
believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.
"One of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction. With
beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric enough to invest the most
ordinary events with mystery, Mr. Crace...lays bare the commonplace
events-always unrecorded-that crystallize later as 'history.'"--
Charles Johnson, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Crace weaves a progressive magic into this mythic plot with
masterful detail, luminous prose and haunting
characterization."--"The Boston Globe"
JIM CRACE is the author of seven other novels, including "Being
Dead," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for
fiction, and, most recently, "Genesis," He lives in Birmingham,
England.
Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. Instead, they are battered to death by a thief with a chunk of granite. Their corpses lie undiscovered and rotting for a week, prey to sand crabs, flies, and gulls. Yet there remains something touching about the scene, with Joseph's hand curving lightly around his wife's leg, "quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."
"Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell—just look at them—that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."
From that moment forward, Being Dead becomes less about murder and more about death. Alternating chapters move back in time from the murder in hourly and two-hourly increments. As the narrative moves backward, we see Celice and Joseph make the small decisions about their day that will lead them inexorably towards their own deaths. In other chapters the narrative moves forward. Celice and Joseph are on vacation and nobody misses them until they do not return. Thus, it is six days before their bodies are found. Crace describes in minute detail their gradual return to the land with the help of crabs, birds, and the numerous insects that attack the body and gently and not so gently prepare it for the dust-to-dust phase of death.
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travellers and their encounter with Jesus
Quarantine is Jim Crace's imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled 40-day fast in the desert. In Crace's account, Jesus travels to a cluster of arid caves where he crosses paths with a small group of exiles who are on a pilgrimage to find redemption. One wealthy and manipulative quarantiner recognizes characteristics in Christ that he believes are divine. Evoking the strangeness and beauty of the desert landscape, Crace provocatively interprets one of our most important stories.
Jim Crace's internationally acclaimed first book explores the
tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and
fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh
continent. In these seven tales Crace travels a strange and
wonderful landscape: "Talking Skull" takes the reader to a tiny
agricultural village renowned for the sexually-charged, mystical
milk of its calves; "Electricity" introduces a remote flatland
region where a monumental ceiling fan changes an entire town's
attitude toward modernization. From the acacia scrub of the
flatlands to a city bazaar jammed with vegetable stalls, tourists,
and beggars, Crace's invented world is as fabulous as it is eerily
familiar.
A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies
are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees,
reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of
safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret,
young, bereft, forced together by circumstance; but finding that
love, courage and determination can endure even as a country breaks
slowly apart.
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