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From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths of Margaret Thatcher’s recession of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s most subtlest and effective achievement to date.