Pitches the reader from the quiet observations of a retired Irish policeman into the shadows of his past, his family and youth. About experience, memory and what we manage to live with.
The fraught symbiosis of a billionaire and a group of guerrilla gardeners. A skilful and thrilling novel from the author of The Luminaries that interweaves intentions and consequences.
The plight of post-Civil War Madrid is told through the voices of over 300 characters. A new NYRB edition of this raucous, fragmentary novel, first published in 1950.