Runt

by Niall Griffiths

On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has turned, once again, to the bottle. The boy is a spiritual savant: an unwitting repository of folk memory from the margins, barely educated but possessed of extraordinary insights; barely literate but able to speak a language of his own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099461153
• ISBN13: 9780099461159
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Vintage Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"