All We Shall Know - Couverture rigide

Ryan, Donal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843516969 ISBN 13 : 9781843516965

Editeur : The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

“Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He’s seventeen. I’m thirty-three. I was his teacher. I’d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don’t think it would hurt the baby. His little heart would stop with mine. He wouldn’t feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another, his spirit untangling itself from me.” Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn’t take the news of her pregnancy too well. She doesn’t want to 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. The part she played in Breedie Flynn’s death, the poisonous ruins of her marriage, and the increasingly complicated fact of her pregnancy consume her thoughts. And Martin Toppy has disappeared. Mired in anger and selfrecrimination, Melody finds redemption in her new friendship with Mary Crothery, a young Traveller woman. But this relationship comes at a price, for Mary is at the heart of a blood feud engulfing her community. Inexorably, almost willingly, Melody is drawn into the whirlpool of its violence. Donal Ryan’s talent for character development and narration comes to the fore in this breathtaking, redemptive novel. Melody’s personality leaps off the page, flawed, complex, contradictory and above all, human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donal Ryan was born in Nenagh in North Tipperary. His first novel, The Spinning Heart, won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the IMPAC International Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Thing About December and Ryan’s 2015 short story collection, A Slanting of the Sun, are both published by Lilliput. Donal lives in Limerick with his wife and children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843516969
• ISBN 13: 9781843516965
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible