Колин О`Салливан — новинки

Землетрясения, цунами и селевые потоки сеют смерть и разрушение. Жители забытого богами и властями кусочка суши утратили надежду. Даже сакуры здесь не цветут по весне, а безжизненно тянут к небу черные узловатые ветви…

Учитель физкультуры по кличке Томбо (Стрекоза) одинок: его дочь унесло волной, жена молча умирает в своей постели. Но он еще молод, его тело жаждет объятий, сердце - любви, а душа - радости.

Томбо проводит свои дни в тоске и печали. Но однажды постигает простую истину: человек чего-то стоит, только если, отринув грех уныния, выбирает жизнь со всеми ее проблемами, несмотря на любые внешние обстоятельства.

Susie Sakamoto, an Irishwoman in Japan, spends her days drinking heavily and cursing the home robot that takes care of all her domestic needs. She despises the thing her dead husband designed and is under the impression that it is about to do her harm. To escape the overwhelming grief of her missing family, she takes to the nighttime and the lawless section of the…

Picturesque Killarney might seem the perfect place to enjoy the rare gift of sun but the town has got the blues. Bernard Dunphy, eccentric jarvey and guitarist, is pining for his unrequited love and has to contend with an ailing mother and an ailing horse. His troubled friend Jack gets embroiled in a violent crime. A trio of girlfriends becomes entangled in the terrible webs of their own making. The novel fluctuates between darkness and light as the protagonists struggle with their inner demons. Can friendship, love and music save their sinking souls? "Colin O'Sullivan writes with a style and a swagger all his own. His voice - unique, strong, startlingly expressive - both comes from and adds to Ireland's long and lovely literary lineage. Like many of that island's sons and daughters, O'Sullivan sends language out on a gleeful spree, exuberant, defiant, ever-ready for a party. Only a soul of stone could resist joining in." - Niall Griffiths