Product Description
The Melody
Author: Jim Crace
Format: Paperback
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Harvest comes the story of Alfred Busi, a celebrated singer mourning his late wife in the villa he has always called home. When he is attacked one night by an intruder raiding his larder, Busi insists his assailant was not an animal but a wild, innocent child, and his account revives old legends of an ancient people living in the woods beyond the town.
Soon the town's outcasts and paupers are marked to be dealt with once and for all. Lyrical yet epic, Jim Crace's novel follows a handful of days that change Busi and his town for good, weaving together grief, ageing, reputation, music and a quiet plea for the persecuted.
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