num_pages: 272
description: A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate.At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.
language: English
title: Darkness Visible
titlecomplete: Darkness Visible
genres: Classics, British Literature, Drama, Nobel Prize, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1516
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux