Harvest
by Jim Crace
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2015 | Winner |
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction | 2013 | Winner |
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2012 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Jim Crace's final novel (before a later return) is a lyrical, compressed masterpiece set in an unnamed English village at the moment of enclosure — when common land is fenced off and a centuries-old way of life ends. Narrated by Walter Thirsk, a farmhand who watches his community destroyed, the novel uses the form of pastoral elegy to explore violence, dispossession, and the death of rural England. It won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize.
About the Author
Jim Crace is a British novelist born in Hertfordshire in 1946, known for fiction of exceptional originality that often takes place in unnamed, imagined landscapes or in the deep past. He is the author of Continent (1986), The Gift of Stones (1988), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), The Devil's Larder (2001), Six (2003), The Pesthouse (2007), and Harvest (2013). Harvest, a novel set in an unnamed pre-industrial English village at the moment of the Enclosure Acts, won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Read more →
