The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in.
"Funny, moving and beautifully written" -- Edna O'Brien
"Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy.. if it was a song you could sing it" -- Anne Enright
"It’s furious, it’s moving, it’s darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut, the writing is effortlessly wonderful, and every one of the wide variety of voices rings utterly true." -- Tana French * New York Times *
"Donal Ryan is the real deal … A brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscape" * Sunday Independent *
"Donal Ryan’s precise and evocative debut … is a textured account of a community as it was during a brief moment of time. … unexpectedly tender … Ryan’s prism of life and lives is compellingly humane. … This is an exciting, relevant and believable contemporary novel about the lost and the wounded that listens to the present without discarding either the sins of the fathers or the literary legacy of the past." -- Eileen Battersby * The Irish Times *
"Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy.. if it was a song you could sing it" -- Anne Enright
"It’s furious, it’s moving, it’s darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut, the writing is effortlessly wonderful, and every one of the wide variety of voices rings utterly true." -- Tana French * New York Times *
"Donal Ryan is the real deal … A brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscape" * Sunday Independent *
"Donal Ryan’s precise and evocative debut … is a textured account of a community as it was during a brief moment of time. … unexpectedly tender … Ryan’s prism of life and lives is compellingly humane. … This is an exciting, relevant and believable contemporary novel about the lost and the wounded that listens to the present without discarding either the sins of the fathers or the literary legacy of the past." -- Eileen Battersby * The Irish Times *
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 voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781781620083 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781620083 |
| Title | The Spinning Heart |
| Author | Donal Ryan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-12-19 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Prizes | Winner of Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards: Book of the Year 2012 (Ireland), Winner of Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards - Newcomer of the Year 2012 (UK), Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2013 (Ireland), Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |