Booker Prize
Joseph in Wonderland: „Treacle Walker“ by Alan Garner
With „Treacle Walker“, 92-year-old writer Alan Garner publishes a short, intriguing novel about a friendship between a boy with a lazy eye and a rag-and-bone man in a universe made of traps, mirrors and layered realities that reads as if Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges had been tripping on some very weird mushrooms.
Joseph Coppock is a small boy who lives on his own in a very small fictional world whose boundaries are set by a bog, a field, a meadow and the regular passing of the train Noony.