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AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017'Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.' ObserverAfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path, the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach, if only they can survive.

Now we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that.PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside - the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses - slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy. A play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFrom A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit play, The Steward of Christendom; from his first Costa Book of the Year winning novel The Secret Scripture to his second, Days Without End, a decade later, Sebastian Barry's writing career has been as long and varied as it has extraordinary.Intimate, revealing and generous of heart, these three lectures - written and delivered as part of his three year tenure as the Laureate for Irish fiction - reflect on his life and career so far, and some of the formative moments and people he's met along the way.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews "You should be reading Sebastian Barry. He] has a special understanding of the human heart." --The Atlantic "A prose stylist of near-miraculous skill. . . Barry reaches deep into the messenger bag of mystery fiction and turns the whole business inside out . . . marvelous." --The Washington Post "An unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers." --Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain From the five-time Booker Prize nominee and 2018-2021 Laureate for Irish Fiction, a virtuosic, profound novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return of his family: his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. A beautiful, haunting novel in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old God's Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.

"A brave and moving novel that] has a tender empathy with the natural world." --Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of Days Without End comes a dazzling companion novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in west Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive parents John Cole and Thomas McNulty, whose story Barry told in his acclaimed previous novel Days Without End, she forges a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of the Civil War, and the fragile harmony of her family is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. Exquisitely written, A Thousand Moons is a stirring, poignant story of love and redemption, of one woman's journey and her determination to write her own future.

A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee, in the aftermath of the American Civil War from the Booker Prize-shortlisted authorWinona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help of two freed slaves, the Bougereau siblings. They try to keep the brutal outside world at bay, along with their memories of the past.But Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of the Civil War, and when first Winona and then Tennyson Bouguereau are violently attacked by forces unknown, Colonel Purton raises the militia to quell the rebels and night-riders who are massing on the outskirts of town. Armed with a knife, Tennyson's borrowed gun, and the courage of her famous warrior mother, Winona decides to take matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice which will uncover the dark secrets of her past and finally reveal to her who she really is.Exquisitely written and thrumming with the irrepressible spirit of a young girl on the brink of adulthood, A Thousand Moons is a glorious story of love and redemption.

Ot dvazhdy bukerovskogo finalista i dvazhdy laureata prestizhnoj premii Costa Award, klassika sovremennoj prozy, kotorogo nazyvali "nesravnennym khronikerom zhizni, utrachennoj bezvozvratno" (Irish Independent), - "svetonosnyj roman, gorestnyj i vozvyshajuschij dushu" (Library Journal), "zakhvatyvajuschaja istorija mesti i poiskov svoej identichnosti" (Observer), prodolzhenie romana "Beskonechnye dni", o kotorom Kadzuo Isiguro, laureat Bukerovskoj i Nobelevskoj premii, vyskazalsja tak: "Udivitelnoe i neozhidannoe chudo... samoe zakhvatyvajuschee povestvovanie iz vsego prochitannogo mnoju za mnogo let". Itak, "Tysjacha lun" - eto ocherednoj epizod sagi o semejstve Maknalti. V "Beskonechnykh dnjakh" Tomas Maknalti i Dzhon Koul naperekor sudbe spasli indejskuju devochku, che imja na jazyke plemeni lakota oznachaet "roza", - no Tomas, nesposobnyj ego vygovorit, nazyvaet ee Vinonoj. I teper slovo predostavljaetsja ej. "Plemjannitsa velikogo vozhdja", ona "rodilas v polnolunie mesjatsa Olenja" i khorosho zapomnila materinskij urok - "kak otbrosit strakh i vzjat khrabrost u tysjachi lun"... "Beskonechnye dni" i "Tysjacha lun" ravno velikolepny; vmeste oni - odno iz vydajuschikhsja dostizhenij sovremennoj literatury" (Scotsman). Perevodchik: T. Borovikova

Novyj roman avtora, knigi kotorogo dvazhdy stanovilis finalistami premii Booker, - eto tonchajshee kruzhevnoe polotno o ljubvi, pamjati, gore i davno pokhoronennykh sekretakh. Politsejskij Tom Kettl pochti god nazad vyshel na pensiju i obosnovalsja v semnoj kvartirke, raspolozhennoj v pristrojke viktorianskogo zamka, s vidom na Irlandskoe more. Dolgie mesjatsy on ni s kem ne razgovarival, da pochti i ne videl nikogo, razve chto melkom - svoego ekstsentrichnogo domovladeltsa i nervnuju moloduju mat, nedavno vselivshujusja v sosednjuju kvartiru. Zhizn Toma ostalas v proshlom, on zhivet, ne razlichaja realnosti i vospominanij - o ljubimoj zhene Dzhun, docheri Vinni i syne Dzho.Oni prikhodjat k nemu i v snakh, i najavu. Tom nichego ne zhdet, emu dostatochno gljadet v okno na pikirujuschuju chajku, pit chaj i vspominat... vspominat. No odnazhdy na ego poroge objavljaetsja parochka byvshikh kolleg, zhelajuschikh rassprosit o dele desjatiletnej davnosti, tak i ostavshemsja neraskrytym, s chem Tom ne smog smiritsja. I v nastojaschee Toma vryvajutsja temnye zavikhrenija ego proshlogo, kotoroe on postaralsja zabyt.Blestjasche napisannyj, idealno vystroennyj, zavorazhivajuschij roman, v kotorom tajna kroetsja v kazhdom abzatse, gde vse ne to, chem kazhetsja ponachalu. "Vremja starogo Boga" - o tom, chto my perezhili, v chem zhivem sejchas i chto budet zhit posle nas, o fenomene pamjati, kotoraja poroj pytaetsja podmenit soboju realnost.V nazvanie svoej novoj knigi Sebastjan Barri vlozhil srazu neskolko smyslov - tut i ochevidnoe obraschenie k Vetkhomu Zavetu, i prjamoe ukazanie na irlandskoe katolichestvo, a religioznye nameki okutyvaet pelena raspadajuschejsja pamjati, poskolku anglijskoe vyrazhenie "vremja starogo boga" oznachaet "to, chto nakhoditsja za predelami pamjati". I eto idealnoe nazvanie dlja knigi o pamjati, meshajuschee realnoe i voobrazhaemoe.PEREVODCHIK: Marina Izvekova

Roseanne McNulty nærmer seg kanskje 100-årsdagen; ingen er helt sikre. En gang var hun den vakreste og mest ettertraktede jenta i landsbyen, men har siden tilbrakt mesteparten av sitt voksne liv på et psykiatrisk sykehus. Legen hennes, dr. Grene, har nå fått i oppgave å vurdere om hun er frisk nok til å vende tilbake til samfunnet, og blir for første gang virkelig kjent med henne, gjennom samtaler og ved å grave i fortiden hennes. Gjennom disse to menneskenes notater og dagbøker får vi historien om Roseannes familie i Vest-Irland på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet.

Sebastian Barry ble langlistet til Bookerprisen for femte gang med med denne vidunderlig utformede romanen som utforsker huskommelse og sorg - og hemmeligheter som har ligget begravet lenge. Den pensjonerte politimannen Tom Kettle nyter stillheten i sitt nye hjem, et tilbygg til et viktoriansk hus ved sjøen i idylliske Dalkey i utkanten av Dublin. I månedvis har han knapt møtt en sjel, men freden blir nå brutt da to tidligere kolleger dukker opp på døra for å stille spørsmål om en sak fra flere tiår tilbake. En traumatisk sak som Tom aldri helt har blitt ferdig med. Tilværelsen blir ytterligere forstyrret av nye naboer: en liten familie som har sine egne problemer de rømmer fra. Og hva med Toms egen familie, kona June og de to barna deres? «Manns minne» er en vakker, uforglemmelig roman der ingenting er helt som man skulle tro. Det handler om det vi må håndtere i livet og leve med, og om hva som kan komme til å være igjen etter oss. «Sebastian Barrys vakre, marerittaktige Manns minne (Faber) graver også bakover i fortiden for å vise hvordan traumer forblir et åpent sår. En pensjonert irsk politimanns tilsynelatende rolige liv blir torpedert av de historiske overgrepene innen den katolske kirken: denne hudløse og enormt rørende romanen er gjennomboret av kraften i kjærlighet og sorg innen familien.» The Guardians kåring av årets beste bøker 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/09/the-best-fiction-of-2023 «Denne sublime studien i kjærlighet, traumer, hukommelse og tap utforsker arven etter overgrepene som ble begått mot barn i Irlands katolske instistusjoner ... Avslutningen er en overskridende og kompleks kraftprestasjon av de sjeldne. Jeg regner ikke med å lese noe så rørende igjen på mange år.» The Guardian, anmeldelse ved Melissa Harrison https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/22/old-gods-time-by-sebastian-barry-review-a-survivors-song

Den pensionerade polisen Tom Kettle håller på att slå sig till ro i sitt nya hem, en tillbyggnad intill ett viktorianskt slott med utsikt över Irländska sjön. I månader har han knappt sett en levande själ, bara någon enstaka skymt av sin excentriske hyresvärd och en nervös ung mamma som har flyttat in i huset bredvid. Ibland kommer kära minnen tillbaka av hans familj: hans älskade fru June och deras två barn, Winnie och Joe. Men en dag får han besök av två tidigare kollegor. De börjar ställa frågor om ett gammalt fall som Tom motvilligt tvingas att återuppleva.Sebastian Barry är en av Europas riktigt stora författare. Han har med sina historiska romaner fångat stora livsöden i en ständigt växande irländsk släktkrönika. Gamla synders skull är en vacker och gripande roman där ingenting är riktigt som det verkar. Stora beslut som får konsekvenser senare i livet, konsekvenser vi bär med oss och beslut som kanske överlever oss, på gott och ont."En helt enkelt storslagen episk skildring." Steve Sem-Sandberg i GP om Dagar utan slut"En förunderlig roman, en våldsam och blodig äventyrsroman genomsyrad av djup och finkänslig människokärlek." Pia Bergström i Aftonbladet om Dagar utan slut"En vacker, grym och poetisk berättelse om en obegripligt hård tillvaro och en kärlek utan gräns." Eva Åström i Expressen om Tusen månar"Det är storslagen, självlysande berättarkonst, som det är en fröjd att läsa." Yukiko Duke i SvD om Tusen månar