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Joness sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscapefor its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scentsis absolutely magnetic.Sarah WatersA dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing.The GuardianIt 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 TelegraphCynan Joness fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful worknot 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.
About the Author
Cynan Jones was born in Wales in 1975 and is the author so far of four short novels, 'The Long Dry' (2006, SOA Betty Trask Award) , 'Everything I Found on the Beach' (2011) , 'Bird, Blood, Snow' (2012) , and 'The Dig' (2014, Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014, Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015) .His next book, 'Cove', will be published by Granta in Autumn 2016. Meanwhile Coffee House Press will publish the backlist in the U.S.; first 'The Dig' (2015) , then 'Everything' (2016) , then 'The Long Dry' (forthcoming in 2017) .Jones's work has been translated into numerous languages, and short stories and other fiction has appeared internationally in several journals and on the UK's BBC Radio 4.For updates and news, visit www.cynanjones.net
