The Gift of Stones - Couverture souple

Crace, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330306014 ISBN 13 : 9780330306010

Editeur : Picador, 1992

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Set before the advent of the Bronze Age, The Gift of Stones centers around a community of stoneworkers who live in a village near the sea. Wealthy and complacent, they survive by the trade of their unrivaled skills, secure in the supremacy of their craftsmenship. A small boy, outcast by misfortune, ventures from the confines of the enclave to explore the unknown. He returns with enchanting tales of ships and the seashore, of new vistas and horizons, that beguile and disturb the villagers. In spite of his words and intuitive wisodm, the stoneworkers remain oblivious to the winds of change beginning to blow in the outside world. Until, that is, the storyteller brings back to the village a strange and angry woman whose presence foretells the coming of metal, the end of stone, and the demise of their way of life.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, and Arcadia. He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the David Higham Prize, and the Guardian Fiction Award. He lives in Birmingham, England.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0330306014
• ISBN 13: 9780330306010
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176