{"product_id":"the-wake-john-murray-classics","title":"The Wake (John Murray Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1066, told from the losing side — in a language of its own. Longlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Gordon Burn Prize. A John Murray Classics edition with a new foreword by Mark Rylance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuccmaster of Holland is a free farmer of the Lincolnshire fens — proud, stubborn, steeped in the old gods his grandfather taught him. Then the comet comes, and after it the French. His sons march to Hastings; the invaders come to his village; and everything he has is burned away. What's left of him takes to the wild fens with a band of broken men, waging a doomed guerrilla war against the new masters of England — and against something darker rising in himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKingsnorth wrote the novel in what he calls a “shadow tongue”: an invented English built from Old English bones, strange for half a page and then hypnotic, until you're hearing a destroyed world speak in its own voice. There is nothing else like it — a post-apocalyptic novel set a thousand years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eThis edition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Murray Classics series livery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew foreword by \u003cstrong\u003eMark Rylance\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHonours\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinner of the Gordon Burn Prize\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePerfect for readers of\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e, Cormac McCarthy, Max Porter's \u003cem\u003eLanny\u003c\/em\u003e — and anyone who wants fiction that takes a genuine risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Kingsnorth\u003c\/strong\u003e is a novelist and essayist. \u003cem\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/em\u003e is the first of his Buccmaster trilogy, followed by \u003cem\u003eBeast\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAlexandria\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52053017198808,"sku":"9781399836807","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9781399836807.jpg?v=1785301325","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/the-wake-john-murray-classics","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}