AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS'Luminous.' Observer'I utterly ADORED it.' MARIAN KEYESHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down t...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“Luminous.” —Jonathan Myerson, The Guardian“Vivid, thought-provoking.” —Malcolm Forbes, Star TribuneIn 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders.It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels t...

«És realment impressionant.» — The New York TimesEl juny del 1941, un soldat alemany del front rus es casa amb la Katharina Spinell, una berlinesa amb qui no s'han vist mai. Es tracta d'un matrimoni de conveniència que a ell li garanteix uns quants dies de permís lluny del camp de batalla i a ella una pensió de viudetat si ell es mor. El seu lligam es va enfortint fruit d'una passió inesperada, i comencen a imaginar una vida perfecta sota el règim nazi. Però mentre...

The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeA soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of...

A "deeply impressive . . . devastating but quite stunning" novel about doomed love and ambition in Nazi Germany ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Set during World War II amid the trenches of the eastern front and the turmoil of Berlin under the Third Reich, The Undertaking intertwines the lives of two German strangers entering into a proxy marriage of convenience, self-interest, and of ideology.Peter Faber is a soldier desperate to escape the ma...

NOMINADA AL PREMI LLIBRETER 2025CANDIDATA DEL PREMI BOOKER 2022«La prosa de Magee és sempre lluminosa, emocionant i penetrant.» The GuardianEn Lloyd, un pintor que va de baixa, decideix passar uns mesos en una illa remota de la costa irlandesa per trobar la inspiració. Però no és l'únic que hi viatja: en Masson, un lingüista francès, duu quatre anys fent una tesi sobre la singularitat del gaèlic irlandès i ...

He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience.Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other with his faithful rendition of its speech, the language he hopes to preserve.But the people who live here on this rock - th...