A metaphysical thriller, a meditation on mortality and a chronicle of our self-devouring times - from the masterful David Mitchell
Black Swan Green
Written by David Mitchell
- Longlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2006
- Published by Sceptre
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David Mitchell’s wry, painful and disconcertingly funny novel charts 13 months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence
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.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell has written nine novels and adapted his work for screen and stage. He was born in 1969 on the Lancashire coast, but was raised in Malvern, Worcestershire
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