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About the Book

Owen Wood is struggling to come to terms with an increasingly desperate situation- suffering from unimaginable phantom limb pain after a freak accident leaves him with his good hand amputated; estranged from his two young children after his marriage fails to survive the trauma of the accident; and unable to pursue his passion and livelihood as a gardener. Infused with nostalgia for one rich, enchanting childhood summer spent with his grandparents in rural Wales, Owen resolves to reconnect with both his past and the natural world. Perfectly poised between the hope of redemption and the threat of irrevocable tragedy, Landed is Tim Pears' most assured and beguiling novel to date.

About the Author :
Tim Pears is the author of five novels- In the Place of Fallen Leaves (which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up and Blenheim Orchard. In a Land of Plenty was made into a ten-part BBC TV series. Tim Pears has also received the Lannan Award in USA. He lives in Oxford.

Review :
Reading Landed was a huge pleasure, since this novel really sang to me. I can think of nobody who writes with quite such searing beauty, honesty, authenticity and commitment about the British countryside and its small farmers. We are back to the Tim Pears who gave us the memorable In the Place of Fallen Leaves, only this time round we have a book more artfully sculpted, more layered, more powerfully elegiac. This is a really beautiful novel. Landed is a bleak and brave novel...Like moments of sunshine on a Welsh hillside, shafts of brightness irradiate the gloom, passages of descriptive writing of such clarity that the scents and sounds of lost childhood assail the reader with deep, moving pungency. Pears is a remarkable prose stylist...Landed offers rich pickings. The story is powerful: it shows the grief that overwhelms a parent at the death of a child and...the darkness that lies beneath the surface of a superficially happy family; it is also a rhapsodic account of the pull of the land...There is no denying Pears' achievement in the character of Owen, a raw, desperate man even before he is filled with grief, and his deeply poetic descriptions of an old-fashioned life on the land. Beautifully and evocatively written...the utterly different passages fit together...because the author has from the start a unity of vision, which he successfully conveys to the reader...Emotionally, the book rings true. Owen's deepening isolation, and inability to understand why this should have happened to him, why a wretched accident (though it may have been his fault) should lead to the disintegration of what had been a happy marriage, and the loss of his children - these states of mind are rendered sympathetically and cogently...There is - can be - no happy ending to his story; yet Pears's skill is to make us wish that there might be. Pears is back on top form in this beautifully crafted story...At root, it is a book about nature, our yearning to connect with nature, and the emotional damage that results when we lose touch with nature - age-old themes, of course, but also themes sure to resonate with eco-conscious readers in 2010. Structurally, the narrative has a pleasing circularity...Thrillingly well-observed...This is no simplistic eco-parable. The ending is a powerful blend of poignancy and moral ambivalence. But it is a novel in which, thanks to the pared-down beauty of the physical descriptions, the British countryside seems unusually alive. If one of the tasks of a novelist is to open our eyes to the world around us, Pears has executed that task with rare aplomb.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780434020072
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publisher Imprint: William Heinemann Ltd
  • Height: 223 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0434020079
  • Publisher Date: 04 Mar 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 418 gr


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