Broken Ghost EPUB
by Niall Griffiths
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**WINNER OF THE 2020 WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**'A magnificently gifted writer' Irvine WelshA Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge.
Is it a collective hallucination, a meteorological phenomenon, or something supernatural?
The individuals living in these mountains are already battling their own demons - of drink, drugs, domestic violence, depression - how could an apparition unite these crushed people or their fragmented country?This is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten.
An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited.
Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, it is written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once.
Broken Ghost is a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods. 'Combines myth, drug culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's also a call to arms' New Statesman, Books of the Year'Griffiths has forged a chimerical piece of radical fiction, a Blake-like reverie on the possibility (or not) of spiritual regeneration in our time.' Guardian'This is a book powered along with ferocious momentum by the raw nervous energy of its characters, whose demotic, alternating narratives seem to muscle bodily off the page.' Daily Mail
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- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:15/08/2019
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- ISBN:9781448162048
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Download - Immediately Available
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- Pages:368 pages
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- Publication Date:15/08/2019
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- ISBN:9781448162048
