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The Dig (Hardback)

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Hardback 176 Pages
Published: 02/01/2014

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The Dig is a searing novel. Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, the story unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. Jones writes of isolation and loss with resonant carefulness, and about the simple rawness of animal existence with an unblinking eye. There is no bucolic pastoral here. This is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts.

Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781847088789
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 239 g
Dimensions: 204 x 137 x 15 mm

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“Visceral Welsh countryside drama”

The Dig is a brutal book - both physically and emotionally. It's also a constantly gripping and involving story that will stay with you long after you put the pages down.
At its heart, the story centres around... More

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“The Dig”

With the badger culls still in the news this feels topical, however it isn't that which makes this such a dramatic and moving book. This is rural Wales with all the romance sucked out of it, leaving only the... More

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“Two paths cross in this brutally honest story of life in the mountains”

This may only be a short book but Cynan has packed it with almost every possible human emotion as we follow Daniel, a sheep farmer who has recently lost his wife and is in the midst of lambing season, and the Big Man,... More

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