Себастьян Барри

Book Description Praised as a "master storyteller" ( The Wall Street Journal ) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" ( Boston Herald ), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided

Book DescriptionThe plays in this volume represent the best of Churchill's writing up to and including her emergence onto the international theatre scene.

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that em...

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and h...

От классика современной прозы, которого называли "несравненным хроникером жизни, утраченной безвозвратно" (Irish Independent), — "шедевр литературы, триумф стиля, не чурающийся и приемов детективного жанра" (Sunday Business Post), роман, вошедший в шорт-лист Букеровской премии и получивший престижную премию Costa Award. "Невероятно красивым и живым языком, пульсирующим, подобно песне" (Th e New Yo...

In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys wh...

От финалиста Букеровской премии, классика современной прозы, которого называли «несравненным хроникером жизни, утраченной безвозвратно» , – «шедевр стиля и атмосферы, отчасти похожий на книги Кормака Маккарти» , роман, получивший престижную премию Costa Award, очередной эпизод саги о семействе Макналти. С Розанной Макналти отечественный читатель уже знаком по роману «Скрижали судьбы»  – а теперь п...

‘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, ...