num_pages: 154
description: This novel explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: 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: Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, Fantasy, Novels
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: William Heinemann Ltd