The Paper Lantern

Burns, Will

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Set in a shuttered pub – The Paper Lantern – in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Chequers estate, the narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills, which become the landscape for evocations of a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. From local raves in secret valleys and the history of landmarks such as Halton House, to the fallout of the lockdown period, climate change and capitalism, this book creates a tangible, lived-in, complicated rendering of a place.

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Publish Date: 09/06/2022

Description

When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper LanternMichael Hofmann, TLS

‘A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered’ Irish Times

‘A book that speaks powerfully about what it is to be English and about the impact of coronavirus on our national psyche’ Observer

‘Will Burns is the new Defoe’ Adelle Stripe

Set in a shuttered pub – The Paper Lantern – in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Prime Minister’s Chequers Estate, an unnamed narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills. As he charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a transformative period in his own history and that of the surrounding area, he reveals a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. Traversing local raves in secret valleys, to climate change and capitalism, The Paper Lantern creates a tangible, lived-in complicated rendering of a place, at the moment when the very sense of place itself is being questioned.

Additional information

Weight 170 g
Dimensions 214 × 128 × 18 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

192

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.5086 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K