In parenthesis - David Jones

In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War.

'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism.

Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying masterpiece.

It is radical, beautiful, humane and mysterious.

It is a book about war that has the power to defeat death.

It is a living breathing mythic miracle of a book.

' Max Porter.