Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy."Waterl ...
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger now offers a medieval mystery filled with the wonders of the time--and lessons for our time. "A bravura performace. . . . The novel is a thought-provoking comedy on the eternal sameness of disaster and the recurrent uses we put to it in art".--Janet B ...
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