Black Swan GreenFrom 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 . . . |