Harvest

The New York Times Book Review - Rob Nixon In its poetry of the precarious hereafter, Harvest calls to mind J. M. Coetzee's finest and most allegorical novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. Like Coetzee, Crace asks large questions: How will ordinary people behave when ripped from their mundane routines, cut adrift from comforting old verities? What suppressed capacity for cruelty may surface? What untested gift for improvised survival?…By transposing contemporary anxieties onto distant times he allows us to feel them afresh…In his compassionate curiosity and his instincts for insurgent uncertainty, Crace surely ranks among our greatest novelists of radical upheaval, a perfect fit for our unstable, unforgiving age.