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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Ferocious and tender without sentimentality, Cynan Jones has a gift for telling stories that give us a sense of earth-bound, hard scrabble rural lives without a hint of cliché. In The Dig, we follow a badger hunter — who knew this was a thing?, and a farmer in lambing season who has recently lost his wife and wrestles with her absence. And as always, we follow this corner of Wales, which could be anywhere, and everything that grows from it and walks upon it. This story is in line with my limited vision of Wales as a place of rugged individualism, stark beauty, and a universal longing for contentment, only here it’s sought from quiet, persistent lives that stain the land with their blood, sweat, and tears. I love Jones’ gritty, clever, unadorned prose. He builds his stories with a sparse originality that is unlike anything I’ve ever read. His similes are utterly unique. In the process, he allows us to relate to the subtle, persistent emotions of characters whose lives are, externally, nothing like our own. There is a brutalism in his work, as here, but his characters are relatable, which is paramount to me. I’m going to read everything he has written. I’m glad I found him. A stark, uncompromising and poetic novella which documents the hard lives of two solitary men in Welsh sheep country. Daniel is a sheep farmer, coping alone with lambing after his wife has been killed in an accident. His story is interwoven with that of "the big man", who operates beyond the law as a badger baiter. Both of these stories are told in simple and unsentimental language that retains a beauty and a poetic precision. The two men's paths eventually collide in a brutal conclusion the precise nature of which is left unsaid. Jones is clearly a very promising writer, and this book promises to remain in the mind. I knew nothing of his work before picking up this book, but I am very glad I did. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape-for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents-is absolutely magnetic."-Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."-The Guardian" It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."-Daily Telegraph" Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work-not in spite of its brevity but because of it. In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."-Financial TimesBuilt of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Het boek is enigszins droefgeestig, maar doorregen met eenzaten die een kluizenaarsleven nastreven en vreemde figuren die de reguliere kantjes aflopen. Het verdelgen van ratten met bijtende getrainde honden wordt gedetailleerd beschreven. Daarnaast dan weer de jacht op de das, die liefst levend wordt gevangen, opgejaagd door getrainde honden… De werkwijze hiervoor is fascinerend waarvoor een zekere vaardigheid en kennis voor vereist is. De gevangen das wordt verhandeld naar mensen die dan genieten van georganiseerde weddenschappen bij bloederige vechtpartijen tot de dood tussen de das en een aantal honden… Vaak worden bij de das uiteindelijk de klauwen uitgetrokken en de hoektanden gebroken om de das ten onder zien gaan… Vandaar dat de dassenjacht verboden is. Onze tweede hoofdfiguur is zo een drieste man die opgejaagd en uiteindelijk gevat wordt door de politie.
De twee verhaallijnen van de zachtaardige schapenboer en de ratten/dassen jager, tevens schrootverzamelaar, èn de twee beschreven gevoelslevens zijn de allegorische vertaling van de woeste natuur in Wales die eeuwenlang de identiteit bepaalt van de bewoners.
02/03/23 GT score : 5 ( )