Darkness Visible Introduced by Nicola Barker

<p><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 <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, introduced by Nicola Barker.</b><br> <br> <i><b>A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare.</b></i><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> 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> But their destinies will soon collide in an apocalyptic climax - one that illuminates the inner and outer darkness of modern humanity.<br> <br> <b>'Exceptional</b> ... <b>Irresistibly transcendent</b> ... <b>Golding seduces us, transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.'</b> Nicola Barker<br> <br> <b>'</b><b>The most powerful, and strangest, of all Golding's novels, and one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth-century.'</b> Philip Hensher<br> <br> <b>'A master craftsman in [his] magic ... Golding's best book ... Wonderfully creepy.</b>' <i>London Review of Books</i><br> <br> <b>'A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes ... Magic.'</b> <i>NYTBR</i><br> <br> <b>'One of the most moving books I've ever read.'</b> <i>The Times</i></p>