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Something in the culture Ireland produces so many brilliant story tellers, writers especially strong in family. Often those books have a grim edge. Life in Ireland can be hard, I get it. But in this, and his other books, Williams' gives the story a lightness, and treats human frailties and even perceptions of magic with empathy.
A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love. With an introduction by actor John Hurt.
In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need. . .
Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore are meant for each other - they just don't know it yet. Though each has found both heartache and joy in the wild…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
How people can bear the unbearable! And how interconnected people's disparate unbearable situations can be.
As in, growing up a mixed-ethnicity orphan in the care of your cold-as-a-fish grandfather, in an impoverished country sliding into dysfunction (and where young men are seduced into terrorism)...and, as in being one speck in the global cloud of migration, landing in New York, working crap kitchen jobs and bike delivery, sharing a crap apartment with too many other guys...
The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel.
High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time.
The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook's heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home.
