: Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel every other way #IndiaNEWS Time is ignorance, reads the epigraph to Treacle Walker. So what is knowledge, then?

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Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel every other way #IndiaNEWS
Time is ignorance, reads the epigraph to Treacle Walker. So what is knowledge, then? Well, what’s out is in, and what’s in is out, if characters in this book are to be believed. And if you can believe them, they will show you what they mean.Alan Garner packs within hundred and fifty odd pages enough to put multi-part fantasy franchises to shame, so laying out a plot synopsis for Treacle Walker is a complicated endeavour. But let us give it a shot. Joseph Coppock is a young boy who lives in a house, seemingly with neither parents nor community. He has been unwell, we are told at the beginning of the story, and he has a lazy eye so he wears a patch over the good one. One noon, Treacle Walker – engaged in a business of barter of sorts— finds his way to the pear tree in front of Joe’s house. In exchange for a pair of Joe’s old pyjamas and a lamb’s shoulder blade, Walker gives him a stone with a horse engraved on it, and lets him choose from a chest a small, alluring jar. These are not mere trinkets; as Joe finds out, they have powers he does not yet understand. Inside the jar...Read more

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