Twist by Colum Mccann

Twist by Colum Mccann

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin

McCann’s close-focus descriptive prose – taut, compressed, image-rich – flashes like sunken treasure … Few novelists pay such close, visionary, heed to the “true stories of our times” * FINANCIAL TIMES *
McCann gives his tale the sense of a held breath … Part thriller, part existential mediation on self * NEW STATESMAN *
McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compellingThis is an ambitious novel, note perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious 21st century malaise – the great loneliness of the connected world -- KEVIN BARRY

Full of wonder at the scale and beauty of the natural world – and full of anger at humanity’s capacity to wreck it … There are passages of extraordinary vividness, evoked with a power that seems to persuade you that you’re either a participant or a witness ... Builds to a bravura climactic escapade ... I loved the thoughtful, essayistic inquiries into nature and the environment, and the consciousness-raising voyage towards the broken cable … Like Heart of Darkness, Twist lingers after you’ve put it down

* GUARDIAN *
An exhilarating adventure reminiscent of Joseph Conrad, with just a hint of Graham Greene * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
Masterful, a surprising, electric book ... A wired up story of what it means to be bend yourself into new shapes, and be broken * IRISH TIMES *
Dazzling ... a plot that uncoils with page-turning urgency ... McCann’s prose has a power and lyrical propulsion that can be quite dazzling … an unexpected denouement that uncoils with page-turning urgency * ESQUIRE *
Not unlike a thriller … There’s still the same relish of language, character and empathy that’s twice seen McCann make the Booker Prize longlist * RADIO TIMES, Book of the month *
A Graham Greene-ish thriller … Dark, moving and very entertaining -- Alex Preston * OBSERVER, Fiction to look out for in 2025 *
A thrilling tale of a man all at sea * FINANCIAL TIMES, What to read in 2025 *
An expert storyteller ... An utterly modern novel * THE GLOSS *
McCann explores the mystery of what it is to be human, and what holds us all together. For this he has picked the ultimate metaphor - the way our connections and the mass of information vital to our lives thrums through glass fibres smaller than a hair deep under the ocean. The cables, both vulnerable and essential, reflect the strength and fragility of our bonds, and of our selves. This is a Gatsby story for the information age. In the end no amount of information, and possibly not love either, can solve the essential mystery of another person -- ANNA FUNDER
Masterfully woven and delicately layered, and told with such calm wisdom that it will take your breath away. Engrossing, deeply moving and consistently honest, Colum McCann is one of our greatest storytellers -- ELIF SHAFAK
Beautifully written ... An immense talent ... Possessed of enough heart and empathy to make most writers pale into McCann's formidable shadow * BUSINESS POST *
Electrifying, propulsive ... a masterful exploration of the elemental forces at work just below the surface of all our lives -- COLIN WALSH
With echoes of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Twist by Colum McCann, his follow-up to the acclaimed Apeirogon, follows two Irishmen off Africa as vital underwater cables are repaired, and sabotaged * IRISH TIMES, Fiction to look out for in 2025 *
Colum McCann gives us a powerfully realist novel of men at sea, literally, emotionally, and metaphorically. It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world. The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean -- SALMAN RUSHDIE
Praise for Colum McCann: McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity -- ELIZABETH STROUT
McCann is an empathy engine * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW *
A giant amongst us - fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breathe -- PETER CAREY
An audacious and wonderfully skilled writer -- JOSEPH O'CONNOR
A great writer prepared to take risks * DAILY MAIL *
Colum McCann is a very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist * GUARDIAN *
McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative * SPECTATOR *
Simply stunning … Part thriller and part exploration of narrative and truth. (There are deliberate echoes of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) … The 21st-century human seems a very broken thing in Twist. And McCann’s novel, penned by a brilliant storyteller at the height of his powers, has a disconcerting ability to help you simultaneously find and lose your bearings * independent.co.uk *
Film noir meets The Great Gatsby in McCann's deep dive of a novel ... An immersive read destined to win prizes ... * IRISH INDEPENDENT *

Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the world’s 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

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ISBN 13	9781526656964
ISBN 10	1526656965
Title	Twist
Author	Colum Mccann
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2026-02-26
Number of pages	256
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