num_pages: 176
description: 'Salute the liars – they can make the real world disappear and a fresh world take its place...' Set in a coastal Stone Age village at the advent of bronze, Jim Crace's second novel, published for the first time in Penguin paperback, is marked by astonishing poetic resonance and daring imagination. As the stories of the narrators unfold, conflicting truths are revealed - truths which deal with contemporary issues of work, love, lying and forces of change.
language: English
title: The Gift of Stones
titlecomplete: The Gift of Stones
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Prehistoric, British Literature, Prehistory, Fiction
ratings_count: 988
publisher: Penguin Books