Harvest Jim Crace by Jim Crace 9781299095588, 1299095585 instant download after payment.

Jim Crace’s lyrical historical fiction evokes the tragedy of a land pillaged and communities scattered, as England’s fields are irrevocably enclosed. 

As late summer steals in, and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. Three outsiders arrive on the woodland borders and put up a makeshift camp. That same night, the local manor house is set on fire. Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held on suspicion of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of his story. 

"As with Crace's other novels, Harvest is deftly written, in language — formal, slightly archaic even — that reflects the setting it describes. It's also tightly plotted; less than a week passes from the moment smoke is sighted until the book's fateful outcome, and yet once underway, we have the sense that everything is inevitable. From the newcomers to Edmund Jordan, Master Kent's cousin by marriage who has come to lay claim to the manor and its lands, the village is under siege, but nowhere more, Crace wants us to understand, than from itself."  -  David L. Ulin, The Los  Angeles Times

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of a dozen books, including Continent, winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize.  His book Quarantine was the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Being Dead won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Harvest won both the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.