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Robin Jenkins

The Cone-Gatherers

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'The best-kept secret in modern British literature.' Andrew MarrA haunting story of violence and love.Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers - two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper.Set during the Second World War, Robin Jenkins' greatest novel is an immensely powerful examination of good and evil, and mankind's propensity for both. Removed from the destruction and bloodshed of the war, the brothers' oblivious happiness becomes increasingly fragile as darker forces close in around them.Suspenseful, dark and unforgettable,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84767-504-0
  • EAN: 9781847675040
  • Produktnummer: 13877567
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 449 KB

Über den Autor


Robin Jenkins, OBE., was born in 1912. The author of more than thirty works of fiction, he received the Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Award in 2002 for an outstanding contribution to Scottish life and in 2003 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Saltire Society. Jenkins was hailed as 'the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland' (Scotsman) before he died in 2005.

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