The Soviet novel 'too dangerous to read' "If the rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs and dens of the land of Britain had a voice, it would sound like Alan Garner telling a story." Philip Pullman said of Garner, calling him "indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien." Treacle Walker, a dreamlike fable of a convalescent boy named Joseph, a rag-and-bone man and a bog-dwelling spirit is at once a characteristically cryptic tale of a child threatened by dark forces, a meditation on time and mortality and a vivid example of folk horror. The Booker is awarded on 17 October, which also happens to be Garner's 88th birthday, a coincidence that itself feels a little magical. This year Alan Garner became the oldest author ever to be shortlisted for The Booker Prize for his small but mighty novel Treacle Walker.
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