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The Spinning Heart
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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012’Funny, moving and beautifully written’ EDNA O’BRIENIn 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, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding’ JOHN BOYNE’It’s furious, it’s moving, it’s darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut’ NEW YORK TIMES
Additional information
| Weight | 0.119 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 |
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| Year Published | 2019-4-25 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 178416500X |
| About The Author | Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His novel, Strange Flowers, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a number one bestseller, as was his most recent novel The Queen of Dirt Island, which was also shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City. |
| Review Quote | Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy … if it was a song you could sing it |
| Other text | It’s furious, it’s moving, it’s darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut, the writing is effortlessly wonderful, and every one of the wide variety of voices rings utterly true. |
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