{"product_id":"the-wake-jm-classics-9781399836807","title":"The Wake (Jm Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Kingsnorth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: John Murray\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'As disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting' Eimear McBride, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A literary triumph' Adam Thorpe, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1066. The Norman invasion has brutally seized the country that the Buccmaster of Holland, a proud landowning farmer in Lincolnshire, once knew. Bereft of his wife and sons, the Buccmaster clings to the ways of the Old Gods, and assembles a band of 'grene men' to seek revenge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wake \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etransports readers to an English landscape steeped in folklore, omens and violence. Told in a 'shadow tongue' - a form of Old English understandable to a modern reader - the novel is an astonishing and gripping depiction of faith, homeland and identity at the end of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Strange and extraordinary . . . it lingers in the imagination' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066827681943,"sku":"9781399836807","price":455.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399836807.webp?v=1784963088","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wake-jm-classics-9781399836807","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}