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The Dig
By Cynan Jones
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Life and death, animals and land, and a farmer and a stranger are all inextricably linked in this “dark, tense, and vital” award-winning novel (The Guardian).
Daniel is a farmer in rural Wales who raises lambs. Another unnamed man hunts badgers and sells them to the locals. Slowly, the isolated lives of these two men spiral toward each other with a grim, inescapable logic. Written in a spare yet utterly gripping voice, Jones’s fourth novel received the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and “is brilliantly alive; a profound, powerful and utterly absorbing portrayal of a subterranean rural world” (The Guardian).
As acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph, “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.”
Daniel is a farmer in rural Wales who raises lambs. Another unnamed man hunts badgers and sells them to the locals. Slowly, the isolated lives of these two men spiral toward each other with a grim, inescapable logic. Written in a spare yet utterly gripping voice, Jones’s fourth novel received the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and “is brilliantly alive; a profound, powerful and utterly absorbing portrayal of a subterranean rural world” (The Guardian).
As acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph, “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.”
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Reviews for The Dig
Rating: 4.060605957575757 out of 5 stars
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33 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memorably haunting.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A short book. Weaving two stories or is it three? Of life and death. The death of a badger and the new life of lambs. A farmer and a badger baiter whose paths inevitably cross. Neatly enough done even if there is a righteous inevitability about the ending. Too many jarringly inapt adjectives scattered around in an attempt to find a different style of writing about nature. Once the book has settled down and the narrative takes over from the description it gets better.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A deep sadness at the heart of this novel. The writer knows about grief and loss and writes about it very well. The two men are both like badgers deep in their holes. The big man is almost like Daniel's badger and vice versa. The cruelty is shocking and sad too. Powerfully written.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A 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.