On The Black Hill
- Author Bruce Chatwin
- Narrator Steffan Rhodri
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 8 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction.
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The audio edition of On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin.
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century.
In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.
Critics Review
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His deepest and best book
Independent -
When I think of Bruce Chatwin now, I think of the ultimate storyteller. It’s the resonance of the voice and the depth of his vision that makes him one of the truly great writers of our time
Werner Herzog, from 'Bruce Chatwin' by Nicholas Shakespeare -
Nearly every writer of my generation in England has wanted, at some point, to be Bruce Chatwin; wanted, like him, to talk of Fez and Firdausi, Nigeria and Nuristan, with equal authority; wanted to be talked about, as he is, with raucous envy; wanted above all to have written his books…(he was) a writer no one who cares for literature can afford not to read.
New York Times
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