These are powerful stories - gritty, memorable and ambitious. The novella goes straight to the heart, both in terms of its theme and its emotional punch -- Edna O?BrienExcellent - this is a powerful and moving collection, Roddy DoyleOrwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann, Sunday IndependentMcCann once again shows why he is one of the best writers in the world . Deeply moving and powerfully written, these are likely to become classics, Big IssueCaptures that peculiar nexus of hormones, deprivation and political imperative on a Northern Irish child coming of age, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewColum McCann's stories are brooding, meditative and lyrically controlled to that delicate point where the emotion within them intensifies with each succeeding reading and recognition. The political turmoil of Northern Ireland finds here an answering, subtly respondent voice - wonderfully skilled and deeply felt -- Seamus DeaneFull of wild melancholy -- Christopher Hope Biografía del autor

Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. His most recent novel, the New York Times bestseller Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and several other major international awards. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York.

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