In Everything in This Country Must, Colum McCann turns to the Troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of children and their parents. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratit[...]
Tells the story of a group of tunnel diggers in New York and how a spectacular accident underground changes their lives and affects the next three generations.[...]
"Dancer" is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protege from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwa[...]
An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of characters always in search of a way back home or of a way to leave it. Mischievous, assured and versatile, Colum McCann's collectio[...]
Stunning, bestselling novel based on the real life of Rudolf Nureyev from an acclaimed author. This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are[...]
The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out onto the frozen lake and forced them to stay there until the spring, when the ice cracked and everyone drowned - Zoli's parents, brothers [...]
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below[...]
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS"
In the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin, "Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that "The New York Times Book Rev[...]
Winner of the National Book Award 2009
"One of the greatest-ever novels about New York"
Dave Eggers
New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his w[...]
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
In the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin, "Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that "The New York Times Book Review "called"""an emotional tour de force." Now McCann demonstr[...]
It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling [...]
New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred and ten stories below him, the lives of eight strangers spin towards each other Corrigan, a radical, p[...]
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost[...]
In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of dem[...]
The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and onlin[...]
In the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin, "Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that "The New York Times Book Review "called"""an emotional tour de force." Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential auth[...]
American writers have been fascinated by the ring, both the primal contest inside the ropes and the crazy carnival world outside them. From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded casinos and exotic locales, they have chronicled unforgettable stories about determination and dissipa[...]
En augustmorgen i 1974 balanserer en ung mann på line mellom World Trade Center-tårnene. En voksende skare newyorkere ser med forbløffelse på den lille skikkelsen som spaserer, løper og danser mellom de to tårnene. På gateplan går livet videre, og vi møter et knippe av New Yorks menneskeskj[...]
August 1974. Vietnamkrigen og Watergate har sat dystre spor i USA. Men en morgen standser folk i New York forbløffede og stirrer op. For højt over alle bygninger, på et af de nye tvillingetårne, står en lille skikkelse. Foran ham strækker sig en wire til det andet tårn. I andre [...]
I Över havet spinner Colum McCann samman tre berättelser om historiska personer som gjort starka avtryck i både Förenta staterna och på Irland under sina respektive liv: de brittiska flygarna John Alcock och Arthur Brown och deras första transatlantiska flygning från Newfoundland till Clifde[...]
I Över havet spinner Colum McCann samman tre berättelser om historiska personer som gjort starka avtryck i både Förenta staterna och på Irland under sina respektive liv: de brittiska flygarna John Alcock och Arthur Brown och deras första transatlantiska flygning från Newfoundland till Clifde[...]