The Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders,Mothering Sunday and Here We Are One summer morning in 1943,lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later,his son Tom,a history teacher,is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories . . .Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious,amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two families,startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. Compulsively readable,it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness,mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us both forwards and back. It is also a book about beer,eels,the French Revolution,the end of the world,windmills,will-o'-the-wisps,murder,love,education,curiosity and-supremely-the malign and merciful element of water.'A quite brilliant novel'Daily Telegraph'Inspired'New York Times
Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdISBN: 9781471187322Number of pages: 512Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 36 mm
Graham Swift
Graham Swift is an English novelist and short story writer,best known for the acclaimed novels Waterland and Last Orders,which won the Booker Prize in 1996. His latest novel,Here We Are,was published in February 2020.
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