The Dig

"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"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."--"The Guardian""It is a book about the essentia [...]
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"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"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."--"The Guardian""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."--"Daily Telegraph""Cynan Jones's fourth novel, "The Dig," 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."--"Financial Times"Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, "The Dig" 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.Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, "The Long Dry" (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), "Everything I Found on the Beach" (2011), and "The Dig" (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of "Bird, Blood, Snow" (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. "The Dig" is his first novel published in the United States.