Author: Golding, William
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 12 September 2024 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 352 pages
184 x 235 x 33 | 1078g
'The first book that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat.'STEPHEN KING'Beautifully imagined, it immerses you in the heat of the tropics with its detail and palette and feels so poignant and relevant. Phenomenal.' CHRIS MOULDBefore The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost.
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