The Inheritors

Introduced by Ben Okri

The Inheritors
William Golding, Ben Okri
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 272pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780571362325
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Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri. This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other. When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer' s brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds. Imaginable beasts are half-glimpsed in the forest; upright creatures of bone-faces and deerskins. What the people do not know is that their day is already over . . . ' Extraordinary . . . Genius . . . Remarkable in the literature of the twentieth century. ' Ben Okri' A stun gun to read . . . Truly a masterpiece. ' Monique Roffey' An earthquake in the petrified forests of the English novel. ' Arthur Koestler' A tour de force . . . Genius. ' Daily Telegraph' Alarming, eye-opening, desolating, mind-invading and unique. ' New Statesman
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Oxford. In his youth he was a keen actor, lecturer, small-boat sailor, and musician. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy, where he saw action against battleships and pursued the Bismarck; after the war, he became a schoolteacher until 1961. Golding' s debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 after being rescued from Faber & Faber' s slush pile of manuscripts, and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, as well as being knighted in 1988. Recently, the Times ranked Golding third on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Ben Okri (1959 -) is a poet, novelist and playwright. He is the author of ten celebrated novels including The Famished Road, which won the 1991 Booker Prize, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays, which have been translated into over 26 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won numerous international prizes. In 2019, Astonishing the Gods was named as one of the BBC' s ' 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. ' He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He lives in London.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780571362325
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 272

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