Jim Crace

La última novela de Jim Crace (Reino Unido, 1946), Y amanece la muerte, no tiene una apertura muy halagüeña. Un matrimonio adulto formado por dos doctores en zoología es asesinado en un paisaje costero. Con este comienzo, y lejos de los cánones de la literatura de misterio, Crace da forma a una reflexión acerca del …

Jim Crace's novel is the brilliantly imagined story of Christ's forty days in the wilderness, a tale of three men, two women, and a curious wanderer whose peculiar fate is transformed into legend. Dazzling, gritty, and utterly compelling, Quarantine is a work at once timeless and timely - a parable for the ages.

THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are …

The Gift of Stones is a 1988 novel by British author Jim Crace. The novel, written in poetic language, takes place at the end of the Neolithic period, and is narrated by the village storyteller and his "daughter". The novel evokes the Neolithic period without giving in to the temptation to speculate on the …