A powerful and moving collection Roddy Doyle
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A group of British soldiers appear to help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in a flood. A young boy and his mother, under cover of night, painstakingly prepare for the marching season ahead. And a young woman and her son sit over a game of chess in a Galway caravan, their thoughts elsewhere in the Derry prison where a young man is slowly succumbing to hunger strike.
Everything in this Country Must reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children and confirms Colum McCann as a master storyteller.
These are powerful stories gritty, memorable and ambitious Goes straight to the heart, both in terms of its theme and its emotional punch Edna OBrien
McCann writes with a dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak New York Times
McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the countrys recent history with devastating effect Maggie OFarrell
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These are powerful stories gritty, memorable and ambitious. The novella goes straight to the heart, both in terms of its theme and its emotional punch -- Edna OBrien Excellent this is a powerful and moving collection -- Roddy Doyle Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann * Sunday Independent * McCann once again shows why he is one of the best writers in the world Deeply moving and powerfully written, these are likely to become classics * Big Issue * Captures that peculiar nexus of hormones, deprivation and political imperative on a Northern Irish child coming of age * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Colum McCanns stories are brooding, meditative and lyrically controlled to that delicate point where the emotion within them intensifies with each succeeding reading and recognition. The political turmoil of Northern Ireland finds here an answering, subtly respondent voice - wonderfully skilled and deeply felt -- Seamus Deane Full of wild melancholy -- Christopher Hope
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From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCanns seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the worlds most prestigious literary awards and honours, including the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin in 2009. His novel TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, and his most recent novel, Apeirogon, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is an international bestseller on four continents. colummccann.com
