Desmond Hogan: 10 books

'Des Hogan is, and has always been, the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper.' Neil Jordan. Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century....

With forty pounds he went back to England. Curlews cried in the bog next to Ballinasloe station. A taxi-man looked harassed - no work maybe. They kissed - slenderly. The train left. She walked away.' And so Diarmaid withdraws from his mother once more, as he returns to London just before his eighteenth...

'To seek the beginning is to go back a long time ago, when the town in which I am writing was a little different and trees hung at the end of the town, trees hung obsessively, many trees, much green at the end of the street come summer, come the arrival of leaves and sun and buttercup blaze.' It is...

Desmond Hogan is one of Ireland's leading writers. In addition to his novels and stories, he has travelled widely (for various newspapers) to some of the strangest and most fascinating parts of the world. In the past fifteen years, he has visited Soviet Russia, Central America, Europe, Africa and...

Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations:...

There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world. Focusing as always on the...

"Parfois mes enfants me demandent, à moi l’avocat vieillissant, comment c’était d’être jeune. Je réponds des mensonges. Je dis que c’était merveilleux..." Cinq amis, dans une petite ville de l'ouest de l'Irlande à la fin des années 1940. Cinq jeunes gens privilégiés, à...

Dans les années 1970, le Sergent britannique Jeremy Hitchens est envoyé à Belfast. Né d’un père anglais et d’une mère irlandaise, il a grandi entre Leeds et Athlone, toujours partagé entre cette double identité. Jeremy est hanté par la figure d’Alan Mulvanney, un romancier délicat...

‘I've lived in this place for three years after returning from England. There was an echo in the landscape at night that no one had patience with, a voice trying to tell you something, trying to tell a story.’ (From 'The 'Metlar') Here are twelve scintillating fresh tales by one of Ireland's...

Irlande, début des années 1970. Susan O’Hallrahan, depuis sa petite boutique de confection à Ballinasloe, dans le comté de Galway, ne perçoit plus du tumulte du monde qu’une lointaine rumeur. Depuis la mort de son époux, elle vit seule, bercée par les souvenirs, et elle attend. Elle attend,...