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The Wake is a 2014 debut novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. Written in an imaginary language, a hybrid of Old English and Modern English, it tells of Buccmaster of Holland, an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed.
The Wake is a historical novel set in the deep mythic past. It is hung on the known historical facts about the almost forgotten, decade-long war of underground resistance which spread across England in the decade after 1066.
Apr 2, 2014 · For The Wake, a novel set in 11th-century Lincolnshire during and after the Norman invasion, Paul Kingsnorth has adopted another solution: he writes in what he calls “a shadow tongue”, a ...
Sep 1, 2015 · In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders.
Sep 4, 2015 · “The Wake,” Paul Kingsnorth’s atmospheric first novel, reminds us that in various times and places, civilization-ending disaster has also been a historical experience. We live after the Shoah,...
Aug 27, 2015 · Rich Preston/NPR. Paul Kingsnorth's new novel, The Wake — a grim tale of medieval conquest and revenge — became a hit against all odds in the U.K. last year, and it's about to be released in the...
Feb 4, 2014 · A post-apocalyptic novel set a thousand years ago, The Wake tells the story of Buccmaster of Holland, a free farmer of Lincolnshire, owner of three oxgangs, a man clinging to the Old Gods as the world changes drastically around him.
