© AMAT-AH Publishing, 2019
The story of a mid-ranking Civil Servant – a superfluous accessary in a delegation accompanying an Irish government Minister to China – who finds himself alone and succumbing to loneliness and, The Fall of Ireland is a subtle meditation on the thin line between illusion and actuality. It is the study of a homesick man, in the gilded cage of a luxury Beijing hotel, trying to unravel which elements of his life are real and which are subconscious deceptions. In a cat and mouse encounter with a Chinese masseuse, he is drawn into a world beyond his experience where once again he struggles to bridge the gap between the chameleon face of someone at work and the actually when everything is stripped bare, with nowhere left to hide from the anxieties, longings and contradictions in his head.
New Island Books 2012
Translated into: Bulgarian
Aisling Glynn
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