Darkness Visible With an introduction by Philip Hensher

<p><br/> <b>The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of </b><br/> <i><br/> <b>Lord of the Flies</b><br/> </i><br/> <b>.</b><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <i><br/> <b>A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare.</b><br/> </i><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> He is born in fire: a naked child in the blood-red flames of London's Blitz. Miraculously saved but grotesquely burned, this mysterious orphan is named Matty. Doomed to a life of torment, he becomes a wanderer, a spiritual seeker after unknown redemption. <br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> They are also lost children: neglected twins, as exquisitely beautiful as they are loveless and sinful. Toni explores political terrorism; Sophy, sexual dominance and violent criminality. <br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> But their destinies will soon collide in an apocalyptic climax - one that illuminates the inner and outer darkness of modern humanity. <br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'Exceptional </b>...<br/> <b> Irresistibly transcendent</b> ... <br/> <b>Golding seduces us. He transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.' </b>Nicola Barker<br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'Extraordinary ... A hallucinatory, incantatory force ... </b><br/> <b>The most powerful, and strangest, of all Golding's novels, and one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth-century English novel.'</b> Philip Hensher<br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'A master craftsman in his particular sort of magic ... Golding's best book ... Wonderfully creepy ... A remarkable achievement.</b>' <br/> <i>London Review of Books</i><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes ... Magic.'</b><br/> <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'An intensity of vision without parallel.'</b><br/> <i>TLS</i><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'One of the most moving books I've ever read.'</b><br/> <i>The Times</i><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <b>'Brilliantly spooky ... Written with great insight and a surprising humour, it is a thorough pleasure.</b>' <br/> <i>Atlantic Monthly</i><br/> </p>