A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost.
ISBN: 9780571374250
Page Count341
FormatHardback
Age RangeN/A
Published12/09/2024
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE SHADOWERS' CHOICE MEDAL FOR ILLUSTRATION WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
'Aimée de Jongh's stunning reimagining has a visceral impact all its own' The Times 'Beautifully imagined . . . so poignant and relevant' CHRIS MOULD 'Just as compelling and evocative as Golding's world-shaking masterpiece' Comics Review
Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they've lost.
'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'
Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn.
'What are we? Humans? Or Animals?'
For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aimée de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBC's '100 Novels that shaped our World'.
Beautiful ... poignant. BBC, The Arts Hour - Nikki Bedi
Brilliant . . . a beautiful artefact, I would recommend it to anyone. RTE - Peter Murphy
The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more. Stephen King
One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years. Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games
Thrills me with all the power a fiction can have ... Exemplary. Ian McEwan
An existential fable backlit with death's incandescent glare. Ben Okri
Violently real ... An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance. Marlon James
A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' Guardian
Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary. Stevie Smith
Beautifully written, tragic and provocative. E. M. Forster
A fragment of nightmare. New Statesman
Stands out mightily in my memory ... Such a strong statement about the human heart. Patricia Cornwell