num_pages: 256
description: Lewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, were born with the century on a farm on the English-Welsh border. For eighty years they live on the farm—sharing the same clothes, tilling the same soil, sleeping in the same bed. Their lives and the lives of their neighbors—farmers, drovers, clergymen, traders, coffin-makers—are only obliquely touched by the chaos of twentieth-century progress. Nonetheless, the twins’ world—a few square miles of Welsh countryside—is rich in the oddities, the wonders, and the tragedies of the human experience. In this extraordinary novel Bruce Chatwin has captured every nuance of the Welsh landscape and of the lives and souls of the people who lived there.
language: English
title: On the Black Hill
titlecomplete: On the Black Hill
characters: Lewis Jones,, Benjamin Jones (fiction)
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Travel, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 3595
places: Wales
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Penguin Books