Donal Ryan: Where are the Kings, Gebunden
Where are the Kings
- Publisher:
- Transworld Publ. Ltd UK, 08/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857529589
- Item number:
- 12622770
- Volume:
- 224 Pages
- Weight:
- 400 g
- Format:
- 222 x 138 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 13.8.2026
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
From the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year...
Jack is just twelve years old when he rushes down the hill after his mother's car on his bike, desperate to reach her before she reaches the lake.
What happens next cannot be undone. Jack's life changes just at the moment he is entering those dizzying years when he will transition from boy to man; when nothing makes sense at the best of times.
Yet Jack is not alone. Enveloped as he is by his extended family - his ferociously loving Nana; Grandad, given to sudden bursts of rage; his earthy uncles Haulie and Theo who want to show him what it means to be a man, and the irascible JJ who resents him deeply. Then there is beautiful aunt Rose, whose mere presence ignites every atom in his changing body.
But how can a boy with so many questions, in a family with so many secrets, understand the person he is becoming? Without his mother to ground him on the earth, will he spin off into the stars?
Biography
Donal Ryan, geboren 1976 in Nenagh, im Süden Irlands, studierte Bauingenieurwesen und Jura in Limerick, wo er bei der Staatlichen Behörde für Arbeitnehmerrechte beschäftigt ist. Für seine Romane wurde er bereits mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Donal Ryan lebt mit seiner Frau und zwei Kindern in Castletroy, Limerick.
