On Canaan’s Side

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God’s Time

A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where–far from her family–she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal.

Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose.

Author: Sebastian Barry
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 08/28/2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.14w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780143122180
Language: English