© De Bezige Bij, 2015
Dark Lies the Island includes thirteen unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope, all shot through with riotous humour, sympathy, and the dazzling language that mark Barry's writing. In the Sunday Times Short Story Award-winning "Beer Trip to Llandudno", a pack of middle-aged Liverpudlian ale fanatics seeking the perfect pint find more than they bargained for. "Ernestine and Kit" is the creepy story of a pair of sinister old ladies prowling the countryside for a child to make their own. And in "Fjord of Killary", first published in The New Yorker in 2010, a poet looking for inner calm buys an ancient inn on the west coast of Ireland, but finds instead rancorous locals and catastrophic floodwaters.
Barry's second collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
Jonathan Cape 2012
Translated into: Albanian, Dutch
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