{"product_id":"the-dig-9781566893930","title":"The Dig","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cynan Jones's fourth novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynan Jones\u003c\/b\u003e was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Dry\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), \u003ci\u003eEverything I Found on the Beach\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBird, Blood, Snow\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. \u003ci\u003eThe Dig\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel published in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566893930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/2015 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/24\/2015 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cynan Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659991314588,"sku":"9781566893930","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f7040e19-4133-4e8a-9a00-4b118ddda1c5.jpg?v=1603895887","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-dig-9781566893930","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}