On the Black Hill: A Novel
On the Black Hill: A Novel by Bruce Chatwin is published by Penguin Books and was released on February 7, 1984. This edition spans 256 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones, who are born on a farm located on the English-Welsh border. Over the course of eighty years, they share their lives in a secluded rural setting, where their existence is only subtly influenced by the tumult of the twentieth century.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of the twins’ lives, as well as the surrounding community of farmers, clergymen, and traders. The story delves into the peculiarities and complexities of human experience within a few square miles of Welsh countryside. Bruce Chatwin’s writing vividly captures the essence of the landscape and the intertwined lives of its inhabitants, providing a rich backdrop for the twins’ shared journey.
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Lewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, were born with the century on a farm on the English-Welsh border. For eighty years they live on the farm—sharing the same clothes, tilling the same soil, sleeping in the same bed. Their lives and the lives of their neighbors—farmers, drovers, clergymen, traders, coffin-makers—are only obliquely touched by the chaos of twentieth-century progress.
Nonetheless, the twins’ world—a few square miles of Welsh countryside—is rich in the oddities, the wonders, and the tragedies of the human experience. In this extraordinary novel Bruce Chatwin has captured every nuance of the Welsh landscape and of the lives and souls of the people who lived there.
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