Strange Flowers
The Number One Bestseller
$27.94
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2021
Summary
The extraordinary story of a family devastated by a sudden disappearance and transformed by a miraculous return from the award-winning author loved by David Nicholls, Kamila Shamsie and Sebastian Barry.
Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020 Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
‘You have to truly love people to write like this’ RACHEL JOYCE ‘One of the greatest novels of this century’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ‘Gorgeously wrought’ GUARDIAN
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784163044 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178416304X |
| Author: | Donal Ryan |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Here is love as a weapon and a balm. Love as faith, fate and redemption … a gorgeously wrought book - compassionate without dissolving into nostalgia
Here is love as a weapon and a balm. Love as faith, fate and redemption … a gorgeously wrought book - compassionate without dissolving into nostalgia * Guardian *
Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving * David Nicholls *
A triumph … Ryan slowly and beautifully reveals the way that even broken people can open the door fully to the truth of themselves * Independent, Best Books of 2020 *
His moving story of love and loss deserves to win a host of awards. It’s an outstanding read * Sunday Express *
I think you have to truly love people to write like this * Rachel Joyce *
A triumph of quiet but devastating power, by some distance the best novel I’ve read so far this year – Joseph O’Connor
A big-hearted, beautiful work of art, full of truth and intensity * Kit de Waal *
Classic Ryan; poignant and atmospheric storytelling … quiet but intermittently explosive * Observer *
I knew Donal Ryan’s latest would be good and I was right - it’s a risky act of imagination that works, and the sentences are as beautiful as ever – Sarah Moss * The Times *
The lyricism of Ryan’s prose, laced with compassion, is astonishing – Best Irish Novels of the Year * Irish Independent *
About The Author
Donal Ryan
Donal Ryan, from Nenagh, County Tipperary, has published seven number one bestselling novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and six Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more, including the Costa Book Award and the Dublin International Literary Award. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2013 for his debut novel, The Spinning Heart, and again in 2018, for his fourth novel, From A Low and Quiet Sea. The Spinning Heart was voted Irish Book of the Decade in 2016. In 2021 Donal became the first Irish writer to be awarded the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His most recent novel, Heart Be at Peace, won both Novel of the Year and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Nero Book Awards. His work has been adapted for stage and screen and translated into over twenty languages. Donal has lectured in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick since 2014 and lives in Castletroy with his wife Anne Marie and their two children.
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