num_pages: 249
description: On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.
language: English
title: On the Black Hill
titlecomplete: On the Black Hill
characters: Benjamin Jones (fiction), Lewis Jones,
genres: 20th Century, Travel, Historical, Literature, Novels, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 3599
places: Wales
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Viking