Continent

Jim Crace''s internationally acclaimed first book explores the tribes and communities conflicts and superstitions flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding place: an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape: Talking Skull takes the reader to a tiny agricultural village renowned for the sexually-charged mystical milk of its calves; Electricity introduces a remote flatland region where a monumental ceiling fan changes an entire town''s attitude toward modernization. From the acacia scrub of the flatlands to a city bazaar jammed with vegetable stalls tourists and beggars Crace''s invented world is as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.