Fisher Samuel - Wivenhoe - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Compelling this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential Irish Times Stunning insightful deeply humane prose Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story Olivia Sudjic A young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed - in village of Wivenhoe. Over his body stands another man axe in hand. The gathered villagers must deal with the consequences of an act that no - one tried to stop. Wivenhoe is a haunting novel set in an alternate present in a world that is slowly waking up to the fact that it is living through an environmental disaster. Taking place over twenty - four hours and told through the voices of a mother and her adult son we see how one small community reacts to social breakdown and isolation. Samuel Fisher imagines a world not unlike our own struck down and on the edge of survival. Tense poignant and set against a dramatic landscape Wivenhoe asks the question: if society as we know it is lost what would we strive to save? At what point will we admit complicity in our own destruction?
Title: Wivenhoe
Author(s): Fisher Samuel
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472156426
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 10/31/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction