{"product_id":"the-wake","title":"The Wake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting.\" --Eimear McBride, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear.\u003cbr\u003e Written in what the author describes as \"a shadow tongue\"--a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader--\u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943560675559,"sku":"9781555977177","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_30c95d5f-7ffa-4fe1-8078-171296e5ed36.jpg?v=1775326002","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-wake","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}