num_pages: 288
description: Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy." Waterland , like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."-- Los Angeles Times
language: English
title: Waterland
titlecomplete: Waterland
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 9038
places: The Fens
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Washington Square Press