A Slanting of the Sun: Stories

A Slanting of the Sun: Stories - Paperback

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A Slanting of the Sun: Stories - Paperback

A Slanting of the Sun: Stories - Paperback

by Donal Ryan
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Winner of the European Prize for Literature

Short 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" (The Sunday Independent)

Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December 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.

In 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.
ISBN9781805680932
Author Donal Ryan
PublisherPushkin Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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A Slanting of the Sun: Stories

A Slanting of the Sun: Stories - Paperback

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About Donal Ryan

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.

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