From a Low and Quiet Sea

Author(s): Donal Ryan

Novel

Pre-read / Used. Excellent condition.


 


Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Novel Award  


Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize


 


Farouk's country has been torn apart by war.


Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe.


John's past torments him as he nears his end.


The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways.


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Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Novel Award  

Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize

"An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel; Donal Ryan is giving us characters - their angles and their language - that we haven't seen in Irish literature before." -- RODDY DOYLE

"Donal Ryan writes characters so well that as a reader you think `I've met that man', or `I know that woman.' But as a writer you simply wonder `how does he do it?' From a Low and Quiet Sea is brutal and beautiful, carefully crafted portraits, deep and real, tied together, fashioned by a true artist. I absolutely loved it." -- KIT DE WAAL

"It's a beautiful, luminous kind of piece - full of mystery, compassion, woven with such skill; heartbreaking and restorative. I will carry these splintered men around with me for a long time, along with the women who have loved them." -- RACHEL JOYCE

"From a Low and Quiet Sea is beautifully written, compassionate and almost unbearably moving. I loved it. I would struggle to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal Ryan." -- LOUISE O'NEILL

"Donal Ryan writes with such sharp observation and humanity, that he makes us sit up and wonder at the tiny quiet internal lives of strangers. His writing is a wonderful gift to all of us. From a Low and Quiet Sea is another short and perfect novel to be inhaled in one heart-lurching gulp." -- LIZ NUGENT

Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first three novels, The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and All We Shall Know, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun, have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was recently voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, will be published in March 2018. A former civil servant, Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.

General Fields

  • : 9781781620304
  • : Transworld Ireland
  • : Transworld Ireland
  • : 0.214
  • : December 2017
  • : 216mm X 135mm
  • : April 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Donal Ryan
  • : Paperback
  • : 418
  • : English
  • : 823/.92
  • : 192