num_pages: 176
description: This novel explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Jim Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape, as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.
language: English
title: Continent
titlecomplete: Continent
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 495
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: David Higham Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin