Black Swan Green
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
$24.60
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2007
Summary
The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell.
Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006
January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn’t reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen mon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340822807 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340822805 |
| Author: | David Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 143mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Sceptre |
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Critics Review
‘That very rare thing, a realistic first novel written by a master of his craft.’
David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good … Black Swan Green is just gorgeous. - Daily Mail
Luminously beautiful - The Times Intricate and beautiful - Time Out It is the best kind of contemporary fiction - TLS Rich and strange - Guardian Black Swan Green’s ‘I love 1982’ nostalgia is a glassy, pitch-perfect, mock-innocent surface through which something rotten might appear - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
David Mitchell
Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten. Published in 1999, it was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for six awards including the Man Booker Prize, and adapted for film in 2012. It was followed by Black Swan Green, shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Both were also longlisted for the Booker.
In 2013, The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida was published in a translation from the Japanese by David Mitchell and KA Yoshida. David Mitchell’s sixth novel is The Bone Clocks (Sceptre, 2014).
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