Dusklands Children's Non-Fiction John Banville's Birchwood is the

John Banville's Birchwood is the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets

Perhaps the most Proustian in the series

She often wonders

the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east

but today his sensitivity to the great undertows of history seems alarmingly prescient

Dusklands Children's Non-Fiction John Banville's Birchwood is theTitle: Dusklands Author: J M Coetzee ISBN: 9780140241778 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Published: 1985 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: "J. M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being." Nadine Gordimer The revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J. M. Coetzee A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the