© Kirmizi Kedi, 2015
This collection of stories is characterised by an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions: A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape. A young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed. An Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold - an outsider both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land.
Faber & Faber 2011
Translated into: Serbian, Bulgarian, Turkish
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