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Dig | Cynan Jones
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"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape--for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents--is absolutely magnetic."--Sarah Waters"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."--The Guardian"It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."--Daily Telegraph"Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work--not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."--Financial TimesBuilt of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts.Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.
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TheEllieMo
The Dig | Cynan Jones
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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swynn
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Man, what a gut punch. It's a novella-length story about a Welsh sheep Farmer trying to make ends meet and recover from the loss of his wife; and a badger-baiter trying to stay one step ahead of the law. The language and imagery is so perfect it reads like antipastoral epic poetry. The course of the story is so inevitable it reads like a myth. Cynan Jones, y'all.

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andrew61
Dig | Cynan Jones
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#NUYear #CallOutTheDogs
My reading group chose this for a few months time after the author won the bbc r4 short story award. Ive already read it and its an excellently written book about a farmer in north wales dealing with grief as badger baiters invade his land- dogs are central to the plot but it's a tough read at time as they part of the horible enterprise. A brilliant book.

Tamra This sounds quite good - stacked! 7y
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The Dig | Cynan Jones
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The dig I gave 4/5 stars due to the animal abuse
Something's that meant the world to me 5/5. So brilliantly weird and beautiful

#joshuamohr #cynanjones #twodollarradio #coffeehousepress #bookish

RealBooks4ever So glad to find another reader who appreciates Joshua Mohr! 💜 7y
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The Dig | Cynan Jones
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Having read Cynan Jones' #Cove a few days ago - which I *loved* - I decided to dig out my copy of The Dig (pun intended) that I remembered being given years ago.