Colum Mccann: 30 books

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic,...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book...

Se porter responsable de l'existence d'un autre – ne serait-ce qu'un instant – est un acte qui peut affecter toute une vie, se fondre dans un récit universel, s'unir à une somme de narrations et ouvrir les poumons du monde. Colum McCann Lors de l'été 2013, dans le Colorado, un groupe...

A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much...

Après l'immense succès de Et que le vaste monde poursuive sa course folle, le retour de McCann avec son roman le plus ambitieux, le plus maîtrisé, le plus abouti. S'appuyant sur une construction impressionnante d'ingéniosité et de maîtrise, l'auteur bâtit un pont sur l'Atlantique, entre l'Amérique...

In a daring tour de force, one of our writers takes on the most intractable of conflicts--the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In Everything in This Country Must, his fourth book, Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the Troubles and reveals, as only fiction...

From the acclaimed author of This Side of Brightness, the epic life and times of Rudolf Nureyev, reimagined in a dazzlingly inventive masterpiece-published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Nureyev's death A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired...

Rudolf Nurejew galt als einer der größten Tänzer aller Zeiten. McCann begibt sich in seinem Roman auf die Spuren eines Künstlerlebens, das rätselhaft bleibt. Aus der Sicht der Wegbegleiter des Genies erzählt, entsteht ein schillerndes Kaleidoskop, das von Ost und West, Partyleben und Künstlereinsamkeit,...

The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online...

The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwoman...

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland,...

From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging...

Tout le talent, la poésie, l'émotion de Colum McCann déployés dans un court roman et quatre nouvelles reliés par la violence – quotidienne, guerrière, psychologique, politique ou sociale –, mais surtout par ces moments de grâce qui font qu'au bout du compte l'espoir reste. Un vieil homme...