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Daniel, a farmer who raises lambs in rural Wales, is on a collision course with Ag, a man who captures badgers for the amusement of others.
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<div><p>"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</p><p>"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—<i>The Guardian</i></p><p>"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."—<i>Daily Telegraph</i></p><p>"Cynan Jones's fourth novel, <i>The Dig</i>, 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."—<i>Financial Times</i></p><p>Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, <i>The Dig</i> 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.</p><p><b>Cynan Jones</b> was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, <i>The Long Dry</i> (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), <i>Everything I Found on the Beach</i> (2011), and <i>The Dig</i> (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of <i>Bird, Blood, Snow</i> (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. <i>The Dig</i> is his first novel published in the United States.<br><br></p></div>
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