Hertfordshire in 1946. He read English Literature at London University and worked for VSO in Sudan as an assistant in Sudanese educational television.
He began writing fiction in 1974 and his first story, Annie, California Plates, was published by the New Review. He became Writer in Residence at the Midlands Arts Centre and in 1983 he directed the first Birmingham Festival of Readers and Writers. His first book, Continent (1986), won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. His fourth novel, Signals of Distress (1994) won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Quarantine (1997) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Being Dead (1999) won the Whitbread Novel Award, the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (USA) and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.
His latest book, Harvest (2013), is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda con solapas · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-84-16537-46-4
EAN 9788416537464
Una aldea paleolítica con los mejores talladores de sílex vive ajena a la inminente amenaza del bronce. Un día el lugar es asaltado por un grupo de jinetes pendencieros. Una flecha envenenada está a punto de matar al protagonista de esta historia, un crío sin nombre. Las heridas causadas obligarán a amputarle el brazo derecho, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5098-4137-0
EAN 9781509841370
Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has always called home. Then one night Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 282 páginas
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ISBN 978-84-16537-09-9
EAN 9788416537099
Mientras el verano languidece y las últimas espigas de cebada son recogidas, una comunidad rural inglesa siente que una amenaza difusa se cierne sobre ella. Tres forasteros dos hombres y una magnética mujer se establecen en los límites del bosque y desencadenan los acontecimientos que llevarán a la destrucción de la aldea de Walter Thirsk ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4472-7514-5
EAN 9781447275145
Jim Crace's Booker-shortlisted masterpieceWith an introduction by Stuart EversSo this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf for a change so that nothing intervened between ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-330-44567-2
EAN 9780330445672
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeHarvest is a masterful novel from the Booker-shortlisted author Jim Crace, in which he draws once more on his genius with landscape and myth to create a lost and bewitching English world. 'An achievement worthy to stand alongside those of Crace's great fictional influence, William Golding.' Sunday TimesAs late ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-4472-1194-5
EAN 9781447211945
Jim Crace's biggest novel since Being Dead draws once more on his genius with landscape and myth, to create a lost and bewitching English world As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders two men and a dangerously magnetic woman arrives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-330-44565-8
EAN 9780330445658
Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the moment. Now, home is somewhere he never leaves. His sax is silent, his marriage faltering, his stepdaughter vanished, and his life shrinking until one afternoon the TV brings news he can't ignore. A ...
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A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret, young, bereft, forced together by circumstance; but finding that love, courage and determination can endure ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-330-45332-5
EAN 9780330453325
The intense story of the pre-historical moment when stone yielded to bronze . . .Crace is a virtuoso' Frank Kermode, New York Times A coastal community live prosperously crafting fine stone tools. But their proud insularity is breached by raiders, and in the violence a boy loses his arm. Useless as a knapper, he finds ...
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