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A Slanting of the Sun: Stories

3.99 (676 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Donal Ryan

From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea

'Donal Ryan, one of our most remarkable writers,
has produced a book of short stories of such visceral power that they hit you in the solar plexus. He deals with the dark side of modern Irish life and produces sentences of titanic impact.' IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY


An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of a car which crashed, killing a teenage girl, forges a connection with the girl's mother; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems.

Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and cling on to love, often in desperate circumstances.

In haunting and often startling prose, Donal Ryan has captured the brutal beauty of the human heart in all its hopes and failings.

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'Donal Ryan is a heartbreaker, his quicksilver prose laced with ... wistful rhythms ... These breathtaking stories explore human love against an uneasy landscape of violence and desperation... Donal finds hope in dark corners.' DAILY MAIL

'Donal Ryan is a master of the magnetic first line ... His faithful subject is rural despair; the poetry of adversity, the baffling fortitude of intrinsically decent people ... This collection shows Ryan adding his own elastic yet distinctive voice to O'Connor's impeccable tradition.' GUARDIAN

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Product Details
  • Weight: 168g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784160241

About Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh County Tipperary whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical 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 the Man Booker Prize shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018 and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His novel Strange Flowers was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was a number one bestseller as was his most recent novel The Queen of Dirt Island which was also shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. 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.

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