Black Swan Green

By (author): "David Mitchell"
Genres:Young Adult books  Fiction books  Contemporary books  Literary Fiction books  Coming Of Age books  
Publish Date: April 11th 2006
Black Swan Green
ISBN0786287071
ISBN139780786287079
AsinBlack Swan Green
CharactersEva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Hugo Lamb, Jason Taylor, Mark Badbury
Original titleBlack Swan Green
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 . . .