Colin Barrett

Mientras la ciudad de Ballina se prepara para el fin de semana más importante del año ?el del Festival del Salmón?, la disputa entre el traficante de poca monta Cillian English y los matones de su antiguo jefe, Gabe y Sketch Ferdia, toma un nuevo e inquietante rumbo cuando estos secuestran a Doll, el hermano adolescente de Cillian. El secuestro pondra patas arriba las anodinas vidas de la joven novia de Doll y del primo de los hermanos Ferdia, en cuya casa retienen al pequeño de los English. Ambos trataran de mantener la cordura en un mundo de locos. Galardonada con el Nero Book Award al mejor debut y nominada al prestigioso Premio Booker en 2024, "Casas de locos" es la esperada primera novela del autor de las colecciones de relatos "Glanbeigh" y "Morriña".

Glanbeigh no se encuentra en ningún mapa, pero los anhelos, frustraciones y contratiempos de los habitantes de este pueblo imaginario del condado de Mayo, Irlanda, les resultarán familiares. Jóvenes con un futuro incierto que malviven mediante empleos ingratos o mal pagados (portero de discoteca, gasolinero, bedel), matones, traficantes poco profesionales; chicos a la deriva atrapados en un mundo cuyas unicas valvulas de escape son el alcohol, el sexo y la violencia, protagonizan los siete relatos que conforman este libro. Sobre ellos escribe Barrett "con afecto, sin condescendencia, viviendo sus vidas" (en palabras de Kiko Amat), y con un estilo solido y sugerente, aspero y a la vez poetico, que ha llamado la atencion de escritores como Anne Enright o Colm Toibin y ha hecho de "Glanbeigh" uno de los debuts literarios mas aclamados de los ultimos años.

This title was shortlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award. It was the winner of the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, as well as the winner of the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard and wear the scars. It matters whose sister you were seen with. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, it matters a very great deal. Colin Barrett's debut does not take us to Glanbeigh alone; there are other towns, and older characters. But each story is defined by a youth lived in a crucible of menace and desire - and each crackles with the uniform energy and force that distinguish this terrific collection.

From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS - a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection.'A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life' Sally Rooney'Addictive, stylish and violently funny... An outstanding collection' Kevin BarryIn these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd. A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won't simply lay in wake. A shooting sees an everyday call-out lead a policewoman to confront the banality of her own existence.A true follow-up to his electrifying debut collection, HOMESICKNESS marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.

One of the Observer''s Debut Novels of 2024**A small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybodys lives...Sublime [Wild Houses is] a thrillingly moreish novel and held me captive until the very last page Sunday Times''Strange and beautiful... A book to live inside'' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People''A gift of true storytelling... Barrett''s talent burns up the page'' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The WrenAs Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo''s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian''s teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins and goaded by his dead mother''s dog, Dev is drawn headlong into the Ferdias'' revenge fantasy.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2024**Beautifulbrings to life an entire world SALLY ROONEYSublime A thrillingly moreish novel SUNDAY TIMES*Its the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author. In Ballina, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer Cillian English and County Mayos enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. Soon the reclusive Dev and Cillians teenage brother Doll are drawn headlong into the Ferdias revenge fantasy.Meanwhile, Dolls girlfriend Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save him. Life in this ordinary town will never be the same againAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELISTSHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025*A whole world is captured for the reader Colm ToibinAs sharp, funny and bitingly bittersweet as life Booker Judges, 2024A gift of true storytelling Anne EnrightA heartbreaker of a debut New York Times

One of the Observer''s Debut Novels of 2024**A small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybodys lives...Sublime [Wild Houses is] a thrillingly moreish novel and held me captive until the very last page Sunday Times''Strange and beautiful... A book to live inside'' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People''A gift of true storytelling... Barrett''s talent burns up the page'' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The WrenAs Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo''s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.

Actualice el pasado. Dé nueva vida a material que parecía irrecuperable. Restaure fotografías antiguas y envíelas a familiares y amigos. Elimine los crujidos en el tocadiscos y los dilbidos de las cintas. Convierta sus peliculas caseras en producciones de profesional.

Nueve años después de debutar con el aclamado y premiado "Glanbeigh", el irlandés Colin Barrett regresa con una nueva colección de relatos. En estas ocho historias, casi todas ellas ambientadas en el condado de Mayo, Barrett disecciona con ojo clinico y una buena dosis de humor negro el dia a dia de gente corriente que vive en ciudades deprimentes, conduce coches destartalados y trasiega pintas en pubs. Gente con tendencias suicidas, problemas mentales o simplemente mala suerte que a duras penas se mantiene a flote y se siente extranjera en su propia tierra.