The wake

The Resource The wake
Label
The wake
Statement of responsibility
Paul Kingsnorth
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 guerrilla 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
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Awards note
Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2014.
Cataloging source
SALS
Index
no index present
Literary form
novels
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Buckmaster trilogy
Series volume
1
Target audience
adult

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