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Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Barry Klappentext Paperback edition of the latest novel from the Costa Prize winning author of "The Secret Scripture". Spanning a whole life time, it's narrated by Lily Bere as she mourns the loss of her grandson and looks back at her early life in Dublin and her move to the new world of America. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 'A work of lyrical beauty, a big-hearted story of a woman at the end of her long and difficult life.' Amy Raphael, "The Times" On Canaan's Side , from Sebastian Barry, the bestselling Costa Prize-winning author of The Secret Scripture , is a heartbreaking novel spanning a lifetime. Zusammenfassung OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW 'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things .' Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Sligo, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.
