John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision
and timing.
*Guardian*
With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the
heir to Nabokov.
*Daily Telegraph*
A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer
which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent
of the late medieval world.
*The Times*
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