Harvest
By: Jim Crace
Series: Listen Alaska
Publisher: Nan A Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780385536905
Subjects: Villages; Fiction; FICTION; Literary
Description: On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion. One smoke column is the result of an overnight fire that has damaged the master's outbuildings. The second column rises from the wooded edge of the village, sent up by newcomers to announce their presence. In the minds of the wary villagers a mere coincidence of events appears to be unlikely, with violent confrontation looming as the unavoidable outcome. Meanwhile, another newcomer has recently been spotted taking careful notes and making drawings of the land. It is his presence more than any other that will threaten the village's entire way of life.