‘The Wake’ Is an Unlikely Hit in an Imaginary Language (2015)

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‘The Wake’ Is an Unlikely Hit in an Imaginary Language (2015)

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Paul Kingsnorth — seen here in front of his writing shed — used a crowdfunding platform to publish The Wake after mainstream houses didn’t bite. Rich Preston/NPR

Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel, The Wake — a grim tale of medieval conquest and revenge — became a hit against all odds in the U.K. last year, and it’s about to be released in the U.S.
I met Kingsnorth at his home in the countryside of far western Ireland. Paul Kingsnorth

The Anglo-Saxon relationship to the swampy land known as the Fens is similar to Kingsnorth’s relationship with his land in western Ireland.

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