Broken Ghost - Hardcover

Griffiths, Niall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224097938 ISBN 13: 9780224097932

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2019

Synopsis

A Welsh community is drawn together and blown apart by a strange vision in the mountains: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. The people who live here in these mountains already have their own demons – drink, drugs, domestic violence, psychoses – but each character has a different experience of this strange apparition, a different reaction, and for some it will change everything. Is it a collective hallucination? A meteorological phenomenon? Whatever it is, they all saw something, early one morning on the shores of a mountain lake, something that will awaken in them powers and passions and, perhaps, a possibility of healing these broken people in a broken country.

An examination of modern humanity’s desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world – where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited – this is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once, Broken Ghost is – simultaneously – a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0224097938
• ISBN 13: 9780224097932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368