Donal Ryan

The Spinning Heart (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

THE STUNNING FIRST NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF HEART BE AT PEACE AND STRANGE FLOWERS

• Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
• Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award
• Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
• Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards
• Winner of the European Prize for Literature
• Voted Irish Book of the Decade in 2016

"My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every day he lets me down. He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down."

Now five times winner of the Irish Novel of the Year and No.1 bestselling author, Donal Ryan exploded on to the literary scene with his stunning debut, set in the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse. When dangerous tensions surface in a small Irish town, the characters face a battle between their public persona and inner desires. Told through a chorus of twenty-one unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.

The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and, with uncanny perception, articulates the words and thoughts of a generation.

DISCOVER DONAL RYAN'S NEW NOVEL, HEART BE AT PEACE, WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR

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'Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy ... if it was a song you could sing it' ANNE ENRIGHT

'Donal Ryan is the real deal ... a brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscape' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

'I can't imagine a more original, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding' JOHN BOYNE

'It's furious, it's moving, it's darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut' NEW YORK TIMES

'Funny, moving and beautifully written' EDNA O'BRIEN

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448154036
• Artikelnr.: 37918157

Autorenporträt

Donal Ryan

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There's a powerful sense of place and shared history binding Ryan's many voices, their inner and outer selves, distilling a linguistic richness comparable to Under Milk Wood. . . . the testimony of his characters rings rich and true - funny and poignant and banal and extraordinary - and we can't help but listen. The Guardian