Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don't think it would hurt the baby. His little heart would stop with mine. He wouldn't feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another, his spirit untangling itself from me.' Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She doesn't want to tell her father yet because he's a good man and this could break him. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming - larger by the day - while the past won't let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her. It's a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody's life. Donal Ryan's new novel is breathtaking, vivid, moving and redemptive.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Transworld Publishers
ISBN: 9781784160258
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 224
Tiempo de lectura:
4h 35m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/04/2017
Año de edición: 2017
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Donal Ryan
Donal Ryan (Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, 1976) es una de las voces más originales de la narrativa irlandesa del siglo XXI. Debutó en 2012 con la novela Corazón giratorio (Sajalín, 2019), publicada en más de quince países y galardonada, entre otros, con el premio Guardian al mejor debut y el premio literario de la Unión Europea. Nominado en dos ocasiones al premio Booker y ganador del premio Jean Monnet de literatura europea, Ryan es autor de siete novelas y un libro de relatos. En 2014 abandonó su trabajo como funcionario para dedicarse por completo a la literatura y a dar clases de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Limerick.