by Jim Crace · Picador · tapa dura · ISBN 9780330445665
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«Harvest» is the historical novel by Jim Crace, published by Picador in hardback (280 pages, in English).
In an unnamed English village, the arrival of three strangers and a fire unleash punishments and accusations of witchcraft during the seven days following the harvest. The narrator, Walter Thirsk, watches his community fall apart in the face of land enclosure and the culture of profit, progress, and enterprise.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013; winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2014) and the Dublin Literary Award (2015).
For adult readers fond of historical fiction and rural stories with a social backdrop.
James Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew.
