Cynan Jones
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in Aberystwyth, The United Kingdom
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November 2011
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The Dig
13 editions
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2014
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Cove
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2016
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The Long Dry
16 editions
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2006
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Stillicide
8 editions
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2019
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Everything I Found on the Beach
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2011
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Bird, Blood, Snow
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2012
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Three Tales
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2003
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The Fart
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2012
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Uzun Kuraklık - Kazı
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2015
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After the Factory
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"This is a brilliant writer at work in the grand tradition. Steinbeck and Hemingway seem influential, but his voice is truly unique. He takes you up close to the smallest of details and explores large universal themes in the process. The struggles of "
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“Like when it stops raining?' she said. Nothing had ever moved him more in his life than the beautiful questions of children.
'Yes. Like when it stops raining.”
― The Long Dry
'Yes. Like when it stops raining.”
― The Long Dry
“The two boys had come along and found the rabbit dying by the bank. The breeze was up a little and it was nice because it had been dry for so long, and still, and the rabbit was wet and matted like a cloth, like a dog when it gets wet. At first they thought it was dead. It had the shapelessness of meat.”
― The Long Dry
― The Long Dry
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