From a Low and Quiet Sea: The Dublin Edition

Ryan, Donal

ISBN 10: 184351737X / ISBN 13: 9781843517375

Edité par The Lilliput Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2018

A propos de cet article

This being "The Dublin Edition" issued as a Limited Edition by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, Ireland. This copy has been SIGNED by Donal Ryan on the title page! He has also crossed-out his printed name. This issue published one week after the Transworld Doubleday UK edition in the UK. Longlisted for the prestigious MAN Booker Prize! 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. No price being shown on the dustjacket of this edition (as issued). For collectors who truly "follow the flag.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: From a Low and Quiet Sea: The Dublin Edition
• Éditeur: The Lilliput Press, Dublin, Ireland
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 184351737X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781843517375
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Limited Edition/First Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • MAN/Booker Longlist
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

Three men. Each searching for something they have lost. Each, in his turn, trying to make sense of the road he has chosen. For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea. Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on. He has Eleanor for a bit of fun, but she’s not Chloe, and Chloe took his heart away when she left him. There’s the secret his mother will never tell him. His granddad’s little sniping jokes are getting on his wick. And on top of all that, he has a bus to drive; those old folks from the home can’t wait all day. The game was always the lifeblood coursing through John’s veins: manipulating people for his enjoyment, or his enrichment, or his spite. But it was never enough. The ghost of his beloved brother, and the bitter disappointment of his father, have shadowed him all his life. And now it’s cold – so very cold – and that lifeblood is slowing down, and he’s not sure if God will listen to his pleas for forgiveness. Three men, searching for some version of home, their lives moving inexorably towards a reckoning that will draw them all together.

À propos de l?auteur

Donal Ryan was born in Nenagh in North Tipperary. His first novel, The Spinning Heart (2012), won the Guardian First Book Award and 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 (2013), Ryan’s 2015 short story collection, A Slanting of the Sun (2015), and All We Shall Know (2016) are all published by Lilliput. Donal is a professor of creative writing at the University of Limerick and lives in Limerick with his wife and children.