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In a remote prehistoric village, a community of stone‑workers lives a simple, unchanging rhythm. Their world is reshaped when a storyteller returns, bringing a strange, angry woman. Her presence and untimely death foretell the arrival of metal, signaling the dawn of the Bronze Age and the inevitable decline of the stone‑craft tradition. The narrative explores how the villagers confront a future beyond their familiar stone‑making, highlighting the tension between tradition and technological change.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Historical Fiction/Ancient Historical Fiction
Authors: Jim Crace
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