{"title":"Donal Ryan","description":"Donal Ryan is a novelist and short story writer from Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. He has won several national and international awards for his fiction, and has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize. His work has been adapted for stage and screen and translated into over twenty languages. Donal is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Limerick, and he lives with his wife, Anne Marie, and their two children.","products":[{"product_id":"heart-be-at-peace-paperback","title":"Heart, Be at Peace - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Irish Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eI said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise. . .\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a small town in Ireland, the local people have weathered the storm of economic collapse and now look to the future: The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the scars of its history, new stories have begun to unfold. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut an insidious menace now creeps through back-alley shadows and into the lives of the townspeople. Old grudges fester and new ones arise. Young people are lured by the promise of fast money while the generation above them tries to hold back the tide of an enemy beyond their control. And the peace of this town is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, \u003ci\u003eHeart, Be at Peace\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a community that together looks to overcome the betrayals, secrets, and grudges that can divide families, neighbors, and entire generations.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101198487775,"sku":"9780593834664","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iw7vGltq8i9780593834664.webp?v=1781068452"},{"product_id":"the-spinning-heart-paperback","title":"The Spinning Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Irish Book Award - Finalist for the Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA stunning new paperback edition of the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of Dirt Island\u003c\/i\u003e's poignant debut novel, capturing the madness, anguish, and compassion of a working-class community in contemporary rural Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of my favorite Irish books . . . Moving, atmospheric and beautiful.\" --Tana French \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrish Book of the Decade (Dublin Book Festival) - First Book Award (The Guardian) - \"Newcomer of the Year\" and \"Book of the Year\" (Irish Book Award) - \"Best Book of the Year\" (Library Journal) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the wake of Ireland's devastating financial collapse following its Celtic Tiger boom, \u003ci\u003eThe Spinning Heart\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fractured lives of a rural community left reeling by the sudden closure of a once-thriving construction firm. As the community grapples with vanishing jobs and crumbling livelihoods, tensions escalate, and a shocking act of violence ripples through the town, forcing each character to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWry, vulnerable, and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Spinning Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is at its core a story about identity--how people present themselves to the world, and the inner truths they conceal. The narrative unfolds through a chorus of 21 distinct voices, capturing the language and spirit of rural Ireland with uncanny perception and articulating the thoughts and anxieties of a generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpening with a foreword from Donal Ryan himself, this new paperback edition of his breathtaking debut novel is a darkly humorous, quietly tragic, and deeply compassionate portrait of a society in crisis.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101823963359,"sku":"9781805680307","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Az-gHLRrFv9781805680307.webp?v=1781075710"},{"product_id":"a-slanting-of-the-sun-stories-paperback","title":"A Slanting of the Sun: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the European Prize for Literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShort stories that capture the brutal beauty of the human heart in all its failings, hopes, and quiet triumphs--from one of \"the most exciting voices in contemporary Irish fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDonal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eThe Spinning Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Thing About December\u003c\/i\u003e 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 beneath the surface. Sometimes these dramas are found in ordinary, mundane situations; sometimes they are triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and cling to love when and where it can be found. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a number of the these stories, emotional bonds are forged by traumatic events caused by one of the characters--between an old man and the frightened young burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; between another young man and the mother of a girl whose death he caused when he crashed his car; between a lonely middle-aged shopkeeper and her assistant. Disconnection and new discoveries pervade stories involving emigration (an Irish priest in war-torn Syria) or immigration (an African refugee in Ireland). Some of the stories are set in the same small town in rural Ireland as the novels, with names that will be familiar to Ryan's readers.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101934227679,"sku":"9781805680932","price":21.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hhkhdXk7RN9781805680932.webp?v=1781075915"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/donal-ryan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}