Ness
Author: Macfarlane, Robert
ISBN: 9780241986370
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 96
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Hauntingly beautiful Anthropocene fable from the bestselling author of Underland and The Lost Words
What happens when the land comes to life?
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a concrete-and-iron structure called The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass. He plans to detonate a thermonuclear missile. But something is coming to stop him.
Five more-than-human figures - or forms, or forces - are traversing the landscape, moving steadily towards a point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness is the land awakened. Ness is lichen skin and willow-bones, condensing mist and tidal drift. Ness has hagstones for eyes and Ness speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.
ISBN: 9780241986370
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 96
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Hauntingly beautiful Anthropocene fable from the bestselling author of Underland and The Lost Words
What happens when the land comes to life?
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a concrete-and-iron structure called The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass. He plans to detonate a thermonuclear missile. But something is coming to stop him.
Five more-than-human figures - or forms, or forces - are traversing the landscape, moving steadily towards a point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness is the land awakened. Ness is lichen skin and willow-bones, condensing mist and tidal drift. Ness has hagstones for eyes and Ness speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.
