Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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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 winner of six Irish Book Awards and a 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 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

'The unambiguous announcement of a genuine and apparently fully-formed new talent' FINANCIAL TIMES