The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
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Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Overall Winner of Book of
the Year and winner of the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer of the Year Award
for 2012.
"My father still lives back the road past the weir in
the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every
day he lets me down. He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down." In
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. Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new
voice in literary fiction.
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