The Inheritors
eBook - ePub

The Inheritors

Introduced by Ben Okri

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eBook - ePub

The Inheritors

Introduced by Ben Okri

About this book

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.

This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other.

When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer's brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds. Unimaginable beasts are half-glimpsed in the forest; upright creatures of bone-faces and deerskins. What the people don't know is that their day is already over ...

'Extraordinary ... Genius ... Remarkable in the literature of the twentieth century.' Ben Okri

'A stun gun to read ... Truly a masterpiece.' Monique Roffey

'An earthquake in the petrified forests of the English novel.' Arthur Koestler

'An astonishing, underrated novel.' Robert MacFarlane

'Beautiful, powerful ... A visionary dream . Shakespearean.' Ted Hughes

'A master fabulist, and a brilliantly creative interpreter of remote history ... An iconoclast.' John Fowles

'A tour de force ... Genius.' Daily Telegraph

'Alarming, eye-opening, desolating, mind-invading and unique.' New Statesman

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571267484
Edition
0
Subtopic
Science Fiction

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter One
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Chapter Three
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. About the Author
  20. Books by Sir William Golding
  21. Copyright