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Billy O. Callaghan

    Billy O'Callaghan approfondisce le complessità dell'esperienza umana, esplorando le intricate relazioni e le vite interiori dei suoi personaggi con profonda sensibilità. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da un'acuta capacità di catturare la fragilità e la resilienza intrinseche alla condizione umana. Attraverso la sua prosa, O'Callaghan affronta temi di perdita, identità e la ricerca di significato in circostanze spesso spietate. Il suo lavoro è celebrato per le sue acute osservazioni e la sua profondità emotiva, risuonando con i lettori attraverso la sua autentica rappresentazione delle sfide della vita.

    Billy O. Callaghan
    Die Liebenden von Coney Island
    Life Sentences
    • Life Sentences

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      *THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER* *A SINÉAD & RICK 'MUST READS' PICK* An unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger and redemption, from a rising star of Irish fiction 'O'Callaghan is one of our finest writers . . . and this is his best work yet' JOHN BANVILLE ***** At just sixteen, Nancy leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she is irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair and a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations. Spanning more than a century, Life Sentences is the unforgettable journey of a family hungry for redemption, and determined against all odds to be free. This sweeping story of one family's fight for survival goes on making the heart lurch long after the final page, and confirms Billy O'Callaghan as one of the finest living Irish writers. ***** 'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Stops you in your tracks so you can savour its utter beauty' ANNE GRIFFIN 'Momentous and epic storytelling' BERNARD MACLAVERTY 'So good and true it feels almost magical' SADIE JONES 'Eminently readable . . . My book of the year so far' RYAN TUBRIDY

      Life Sentences
    • An einem bitterkalten Winternachmittag treffen sich Michael und Caitlin auf Coney Island. Beide sind verheiratet, aber nicht miteinander, und seit 25 Jahren schon ist der nostalgische Vergnügungspark einmal im Monat ihr Refugium: Heimliche Stunden der Liebe, nach denen sie sich sehnen, und doch kehren sie danach jedes Mal wieder zu ihren Ehepartnern zurück, denen sie sich verpflichtet fühlen. Aber diesmal, während draußen vor dem verlassenen Hotel ein fürchterlicher Schneesturm tobt, erscheint ihnen ihr Zufluchtsort wie das Ende der Welt. Und in beider Leben sind Veränderungen eingetreten, die womöglich eine endgültige, lang hinausgeschobene Entscheidung verlangen …

      Die Liebenden von Coney Island