

Harvest
Author: Jim Crace
Narrator: John Keating
Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/26/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Jim Crace
Narrator: John Keating
Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/26/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
This book seemed right up my street. I enjoy historical fiction and here the story of a village facing sudden new threats - enclosure of the land, which threatens their whole way of life, the arrival of strangers, both poor and powerless and wealthy and powerful, and the whisper of witchery - sounds......more
Perhaps the most evocative and realistic depiction of the Enclosure Act and it's effect on the labouring country classes that you will ever read. The narrator, an outsider in the village in which he lives, reports the terrifying ordeal of the villagers as their common land is parceled up and they ar......more
Jim Crace’s HARVEST reads like a simple moral fable of a tiny and remote medieval English village, destroyed externally and internally by the conversion of farms into sheep pastures, but wait! There is far more to it than meets the eye. Mr. Crace is particularly interested in pairings: everything com......more