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Heart, Be at Peace

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 155

WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'Donal Ryan’s writing has earned him a place among the greatest names in Irish literature and this lyrical novel speaks to the very heart of modern Irish society.' Maria Dickenson, Chair of the IBA judges 'Beautiful...a book full of love and hope, more needed in these days than ever' Kit de Waal 'I am blown away by the ambition and scope of this exquisite piece of writing...sublime in both its sentiment and beauty' Rachel Joyce Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two... In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding. But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation...

All We Shall Know

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 217

From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea 'Poetic, powerful and heart-rending' THE TIMES 'An exquisite account of womanhood, friendship, prejudice and tradition that is both intimate in scale and awesome in achievement' IRISH INDEPENDENT Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She can't tell her father yet because he's a good man and this could break him. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming - larger by the day - while the past won't let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her. It's a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody's life. _________ 'A joy to read, for all that it breaks your heart' INDEPENDENT 'One of the finest writers working in Ireland today ... worthy of Greek Drama' GUARDIAN 'A stunning piece of work, utterly truthful and emotionally powerful' JOSEPH O'CONNOR 'Work of genius ... I was entranced by it. Buckled by it' SEBASTIAN BARRY

La Vie est une chose étrange

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 189

Magnifique et dévastatrice, cette exploration de la perte, de l'aliénation et du pouvoir rédempteur de l'amour, réaffirme avec force que Donal Ryan est l'un des écrivains les plus talentueux et les plus empathiques qui soient à l'œuvre aujourd'hui.

A Drifting Smoke

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 224

Tout ce que nous allons savoir

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 192

« Martin Toppy est le fils d’un homme célèbre chez les gens du voyage et le père de mon enfant à naître. Il a dix-sept ans, j’en ai trente-trois. J’étais son professeur particulier. » C’est sur ces mots que s’ouvre le nouveau roman de Donal Ryan. Melody Shee est enceinte de douze semaines lorsqu’elle entreprend l’écriture d’un journal. Hantée par son mariage toxique avec un homme qui l’a quittée en apprenant la vérité sur l’enfant à naître, par le souvenir d’une mère inaccessible et de l’amie d’enfance qu’elle a trahie, Melody doit faire face seule à ses démons. Jusqu'à ce qu'une jeune femme énigmatique entre dans sa vie... En donnant voix à Melody, Donal Ryan met à nu toute la complexité d’un être à travers le prisme d’une petite ville irlandaise. Ce troublant portrait de femme, qui doit son titre à un magnifique poème de William Butler Yeats, est un roman déchirant sur le mariage et l’adultère, la solitude et l’amitié. « Donal Ryan s’impose comme l’un des plus grands écrivains irlandais d’aujourd’hui et inscrit son héroïne dans la droite lignée d’Emma Bovary et d’Anna Karénine. » The Guardian

The Thing About December

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 187

From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea 'A force of nature ... a life-enhancing talent' SEBASTIAN BARRY While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, no matter where he turns. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, The Thing About December breathes with his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt. This is a heart-twisting tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is. Donal Ryan's award-winning debut, The Spinning Heart, garnered unprecedented acclaim, and The Thing About December confirms his status as one of the best writers of his generation. _________ 'His paragraphs are unnoticeably beautiful, his heart always on show, and he writes with a social accuracy that is devastating' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Compelling and heartbreaking . . beautiful, yet simple and utterly convincing' SUNDAY TIMES 'Painfully moving ... Ryan's work has set a benchmark to which other writers will aspire' JOHN...

The Spinning Heart

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 0

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012 'Funny, moving and beautifully written’ Edna O'Brien In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of 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. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant. '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,...

From a Low and Quiet Sea

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 185

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLE Farouk's country has been torn apart by war. Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John's past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways. _________ 'A thing of such beauty and compassion, a reminder of what the very finest sentences can do to shatter and then reassemble our hearts' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'I struggle to think of a writer who has been so prolific and consistent in quality as Ryan ... Brutally honest, moving and often hilarious' GUARDIAN 'Donal Ryan has not only bounded over a wall into new territory, but built himself a castle there . . . This is a superb novel.' JOHN BOYNE 'Beautiful and affecting' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Donal Ryan writes characters so well that as a reader you think 'I've met that man', or 'I know that woman.' But as a writer you...

The Queen of Dirt Island

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 265

From the Booker longlisted author, and an Irish Times No.1 bestseller - a searing, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the stories that bind them. 'Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL JOYCE ___________ This is a story about family, about all of the things it should be - and sometimes isn't. In Nenagh, County Tipperary, four generations of Aylward women live and love. The head of the family, Nana, is a woman who has buried two sons and whose life has been the family farm. Her daughter-in-law, Eileen, is estranged from her own parents, having 'shamed' them and given birth to Saoirse. And then there's Saoirse herself, eavesdropping on lives she cannot comprehend. It is only when they must battle for the inheritance of Dirt Island - a narrow strip of land adjacent to Eileen's childhood home - that they truly understand the roots that bind their lives together. _________ 'The prose drips like honey off a spoon' SUNDAY TIMES 'Beautifully poised, sad, poetic and human....I loved every single line.' IAN RANKIN 'A generous mosaic of a novel...

A Slanting of the Sun: Stories

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 242

From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea 'Donal Ryan, one of our most remarkable writers, has produced a book of short stories of such visceral power that they hit you in the solar plexus. He deals with the dark side of modern Irish life and produces sentences of titanic impact.' IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of a car which crashed, killing a teenage girl, forges a connection with the girl's mother; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems. Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and...

Le Coeur qui tourne

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 136

Bobby Mahon était une figure respectée du village. L'ancien contremaître de l'entreprise locale est désormais, comme la majorité des habitants, au chômage. Sans indemnités ni espoir de retrouver du travail. La crise qui frappe de plein fouet l'Irlande comme toute l'Europe déchire les liens de sa communauté autrefois soudée. Les langues se délient, les rumeurs circulent, les tensions et les rivalités émergent. Et, faute de pouvoir s'en prendre au patron qui a mis la clé sous la porte, Bobby devient la cible d'hommes et de femmes démunis et amers. Jusqu'à l'irréparable... Donal Ryan tisse dans ce premier roman qui allie noirceur et humour ravageur une fresque humaine et sociale saisissante. À la manière d'un roman choral, dont la construction ambitieuse n'est pas sans rappeler le Faulkner de Tandis que j'agonise, vingt-et-un narrateurs se succèdent pour raconter l'histoire d'un naufrage. Mais aussi d'un espoir. À l'image de ce coeur rouillé, planté sur la porte de la maison où Bobby a grandi, qui persiste à tourner au gré du vent. « Ce roman annonce sans équivoque l'arrivée sur la scène littéraire d'un nouveau talent au génie et à la maîtrise...

Heart, Be at Peace

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 0

Par une mer basse et tranquille

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 173

« Ce livre m’a longtemps habité. Je me demande si nous ne sommes pas en train de vivre un nouvel âge doré de la littérature. » Jonathan Franzen Devenu une voix incontournable des lettres irlandaises depuis Le Cœur qui tourne, Donal Ryan s’éloigne pour la première fois de son décor familier du comté de Limerick pour embrasser un territoire plus vaste. Fuyant les bombardements, Farouk, un médecin syrien, décide de traverser la Méditerranée avec sa femme et sa fille pour trouver asile en Irlande. Ce pays est le seul qu’a jamais connu Lampy, un jeune homme qui rêve de tout plaquer – à commencer par sa famille et son boulot – depuis que Chloe, sa petite amie, l’a quitté. Quant à John, peut-être parce qu’il sent la mort approcher, il cherche la rédemption après une vie passée à faire le mal autour de lui. Le réfugié, le rêveur au cœur brisé et le pénitent : de la Syrie en guerre à la campagne irlandaise, trois hommes blessés à la croisée de leurs destins, trois êtres que tout oppose et dont les chemins vont converger de manière inattendue. Un roman bouleversant d’humanité et de justesse.

Strange Flowers

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 190

Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020 Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE 'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIAN In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever. Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today. _________ 'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' INDEPENDENT 'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' KATHLEEN MACMAHON 'Exquisite . . . Beautiful' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID 'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' RÓNÁN HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL

The Queen of Dirt Island

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 0

“From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” –Maggie O'Farrell "This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family." –Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let The Great World Spin From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them to know that—in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes—their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It’s a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. Of all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes...

From a Low and Quiet Sea

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 192

'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLE Farouk's country has been torn apart by war. Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John's past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways.

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

Autor: Anne Fogarty , Eugene O'brien

Número de Páginas: 501

This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide. Focusing on Irish writing published or performed in the twenty-first century, this volume explores genres, modes and styles of writing that are current, relevant and distinctive in today’s classrooms. Examining a host of innovative, key writers, including Sally Rooney, Marion Keyes, Sebastian Barry, Paul Howard, Claire Kilroy, Micheal O’Siadhail, Donal Ryan, Marina Carr, Enda Walsh, Martin McDonagh, Colette Bryce, Leanne Quinn, Sinéad Morrissey, Paula Meehan, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Doireann Ni Ghríofa. This text investigates the sociocultural and theoretical contexts of their aesthetic achievements and innovations. Furthermore, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing traces the expansion of Irish writing, offering fresh insight to Irish identities across the boundaries of race, class and gender. With its distinctive contemporary focus and comprehensive scope, this multifaceted volume provides the first significant literary history of twenty-first-century Irish...

Strange Flowers

Autor: Donal Ryan

Número de Páginas: 240

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. 0Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.0Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.0Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.

Incomparable Poetry

Autor: Robert Kiely

Número de Páginas: 163

Incomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature is an attempt to describe the ways in which the financial crisis of 2007-8 impacted literature in Ireland, and thereby describe the ways in which poetry engages with, is structured by, and wrestles with economic issues.Ireland and its contemporary poetry is a particularly suitable case study for studying the effect of the economic crisis on Anglophone poetry, because poetry in Ireland has a special relationship to the state and economy due to its status as a postcolonial nation-state. Beginning with a summary of recent Irish economic and cultural history, and moving across experimental and mainstream poetry, this essay outlines how the poetry of Trevor Joyce, Leontia Flynn, Dave Lordan, and Rachel Warriner addresses in its form and content the boom years of the Celtic Tiger and the financial crisis.Incomparable Poetry also discusses the concerns and historical contexts these poets have turned to in order to make sense of these events - including Chinese history, accountancy, sexual violence, and Iceland's economic history. In contemporary Irish poetry, the author argues, we see a significant...