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The Cone-Gatherers

Robin Jenkins
Barcode 9780857862358
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Release Date: 01/03/2012

Edition: Main - Canons Imprint
Genre: Fiction
Label: Canongate Canons
Series: Canons
Contributors: Paul Giamatti (Introduction by)
Language: English
Publisher: Canongate Books

The Cone-Gatherers is Robin Jenkins' masterpiece, now with an introduction from Paul Giamatti - a haunting story of love and violence, war and envy

In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare, he comes face to face with Duror, the gamekeeper. In retaliation, in the depths of the wood, Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers.

Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives. It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood. Powerful and unforgettable, Robin Jenkins' masterpiece is a haunting story of love and violence, and an investigation of class-conflict, war and envy.