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From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel, spanning one woman Lilly Bere's lifetime, lived between Ireland and America.
As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.
Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger.
At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.
About The Author
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008). A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007. The Secret Scripture won several awards. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.
Here is something exciting - twice shortlisted Man Booker author Sebastian Barry presents us with the elegiac On Canaan's Side.
Here he is in conversation with Booktopia.
ISBN: 9780571273638
ISBN-10: 0571273637
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 272
Published: 1st August 2011
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.361
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