From award-winning author David Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas ) comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year, 1982, at perhaps England's bleakest time - in what is for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor the sleepiest village in Worcestershire. But Mitchell creates an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy . . .
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From award-winning author David Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas ) comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year, 1982, at perhaps England's bleakest time - in what is for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor the sleepiest village in Worcestershire. But Mitchell creates an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy . . .
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Superbly written, wonderfully understood, Black Swan Green opens for an international audience the trials and tribulations of a boy between his 13th and 14th year. He, along with his family members, straddles this year, each of them changed by their having lived through it.
Druid
Apr 3, 2007
Pensive, brooding, hopeful
Broodingly and sympathetically written without losing its sense of humour. Throughout the book you could not help but wait for Jason to realise his own, and when he does, you fight the urge to shout 'Huzzah' . Should become required reading in all classrooms. It gives a good, long look at oneself. Not only a coming of age for boys but certainly for any gender, at any age.
voyager
Apr 3, 2007
An indulgence a very English eighties
This is strictly for an English audience or someone wishing to know about and english childhood in the eighties. Mitchell takes us back to simpler times of Rubiks cubes and street fights (possibly based on his own life) and takes us through the traumas of a stuttering child. Everyone can associate with the alienation Mitchell describes very well. It is, however , a purely indulgent book rather like reading someones personal diary.
