This stunning debut has won major acclaim, winning the Guardian First Book Award and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards ; it was shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first three
novels, The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and All We
Shall Know, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun,
have all been published to major 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 Man Booker Prize and
shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018.
A former civil servant, 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.
"Funny, moving and beautifully written"
*Edna O'Brien*
"Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy ... if it was a song
you could sing it"
*Anne Enright*
"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."
*New York Times*
"Donal Ryan is the real deal … A brilliantly realised, utterly
resonant state-of-the-nation landscape"
*Sunday Independent*
"Donal Ryan’s precise and evocative debut … is a textured account
of a community as it was during a brief moment of time. …
unexpectedly tender … Ryan’s prism of life and lives is
compellingly humane. … This is an exciting, relevant and believable
contemporary novel about the lost and the wounded that listens to
the present without discarding either the sins of the fathers or
the literary legacy of the past."
*The Irish Times*
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