Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri.
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at
Oxford. In his youth he was a keen actor, lecturer, small-boat
sailor, and musician. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy, where he
saw action against battleships and pursued the Bismarck; after the
war, he became a schoolteacher until 1961. Golding's debut
novel,Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 after being rescued
from Faber & Faber's slush pile of manuscripts, and was filmed by
Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage
in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, as
well as being knighted in 1988. Recently, the Times ranked Golding
third on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since
1945.
Nigerian-born poet and author Ben Okri is the author of eight
novels, including his Booker-Prize-winning novel The Famished Road
as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays,
translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature and has won numerous international prizes,
including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan
Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a
Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was
awarded the OBE in 2001.
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