Wish You Were Here - Graham Swift

Brilliant.  An exploration of tragedy of the collapse and disappearance of the rural small farm tradition in England.  It chronicles the loss of family farms that have been in the same families sometimes for centuries.  Loss of one's sense of place, of one's rootedness.  In fact, the disappearance of a whole rural society and culture, a way of belonging.  The last bits of an alienation that began more than a century ago.  Swift's exploration of the mind of the son about to give up the family farm is subtle and deep.  Again through that marrying of theme and narrative voice.  (He is generally wonderful with narrative voice in all his work.)