Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2014.
Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2014.
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.
| ISBN: | 9781783520985 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2015 |
| Author: | Paul Kingsnorth |
| Publisher: | Unbound an imprint of Cornerstone |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 365 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2014.
Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2014.
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.
The Wake features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction
The Wake is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Wake was written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Unbound an imprint of Cornerstone
The Wake has 365 pages
