On the Black Hill: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
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Author(s)Chatwin, Bruce
PublisherPenguin Books
ISBN / ASIN0143119060
ISBN-139780143119067
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank635,909
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Bruce Chatwin's fascination with nomads and wanderlust represents itself in reverse in On the Black Hill, a tale of two brothers (identical twins) who never go anywhere. They stay in the farmhouse on the English-Welsh border where they were born, tilling the rough soil and sleeping in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advance of the 20th century. Smacking of a Welsh Ethan Frome, Chatwin evokes the lonely tragedies of farm life, and above all the vibrant land of Wales.