{"product_id":"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","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049396715760,"sku":"9781566893930","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566893930_p0.jpg?v=1763791406","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566893930","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}