Of Talons And Teeth Av Niall Griffiths

<b>An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom.</b><br><br>Wales, a mining village, pre-industrial revolution. A world of serfdom and squalor, its inhabitants oppressed by both Chapel conformist impulses and the predations of a new kind of capitalism being born.<br><br>Sion, a metalworker, strikes up an illicit relationship with Katherine, the wife of the mineowner''s personal dogsbody. And so begins the struggle of non-transactional and non-exploitative human love to be recognised in a place bent on the destruction and negation of that very thing.<br><br>A mix of political anger, historical excavation, Celtic mysticism, praise of the human impulse to love and rage at avarice and exploitation, <i>Of Talons and Teeth</i> seeks to explore that moment when human beings and the natural beauties around them were turned into mere chattels; when Mammon became the only god worth worshipping.