Donal Ryan: 6 books

Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute observers might fail to detect the humanity that roils...

A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by her husband Pat. Melody was teaching...

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD A moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan.** For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred...

Il cuore girevole è un romanzo corale e polifonico in ventuno capitoli, ognuno condotto dal punto di vista di un personaggio diverso, su quanto accade in un paesino della campagna irlandese all’esplosione della bolla speculativa immobiliare che costellò gli insediamenti rurali di ghost town, lotti...

While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Following the deaths first of his father and then his mother, Johnsey inherits the family farm, and...