Пол Линч — новинки

Однажды вечером микробиолог Айлиш Стэк, мать четверых детей, отвечает на стук в дверь. На пороге — двое оперативников свежеобразованной Государственной службы национальной безопасности, которые хотели бы поговорить с мужем Айлиш, активистом учительского профсоюза. А после демонстрации протеста ее муж пропадает — и Айлиш оказывается в плену логики кошмара: общественные институты рассыпаются на глазах, правительство превратило тихий пригород в зону боевых действий, и, чтобы спасти семью, Айлиш вынуждена решиться на невозможное…

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.

How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic…

Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing village on what they believe to be a routine expedition. But then a devastating storm casts them adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With no means of contacting the outside world and no sign of rescue, their only hope lies with one another. Both men must confront the truth about themselves, and the regrets that they have spent a lifetime trying to forget, if they are to survive.

sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl and her brother on a great journey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine.

Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, "You are the strong one now." With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits Grace in men's clothing and casts her out. When her younger brother Colly follows after her, the two set off on a life-changing odyssey in the looming shadow of the Great Famine.

To survive, Grace will become a boy, a bandit, a penitent and finally, a woman. A meditation on love, life and destiny, Grace is an epic coming-of-age novel, and a poetic evocation of the Irish famine as it has never been written.

L'âpreté lyrique du premier roman de Paul Lynch, Un ciel rouge, le matin, métamorphosait le paysage irlandais en un vaste territoire à l'horizon sans limites, au fil d'une impitoyable chasse à l'homme qui poussait inéluctablement un jeune métayer vers l'exil américain, dans un récit visuel fracassant.

Son nouveau roman raconte le retour d'un émigré irlandais au pays. Après des années passées à New York, Barnabas Kane retrouve le Donegal en 1945 et s'installe sur une ferme avec sa femme et son fils. Mais l'incendie, accidentel ou criminel, qui ravage son étable, tuant un ouvrier et décimant son bétail, met un frein à ce nouveau départ. Confronté à l'hostilité et à la rancoeur d'une communauté qui l'accuse d'avoir tué l'un des leurs, il devient un étranger sur son propre sol. Confiné sur cette terre ingrate où l'inflexibilité des hommes le dispute à celle de la nature, Barnabas Kane va devoir choisir à quel monde il appartient.