SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEMcGahern's 'masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it' (Colm Tóibín) by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel).'A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.' Sunday Telegraph

The iconic debut novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín).Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpos...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.'My only concern', John McGahern once said, 'is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply.''The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern's stories take place - to...

A landmark event: the collected stories of 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín).'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful.' David Mitchell'I have admired, even loved, John McGahern's work since his first novel .' Melvyn Bragg'Gentle, lyrical, an amorist of language, a natural historian of the soul.'

La prigione in The Dark è nel fango e nella severa aridità morale dell'Irlanda degli anni Cinquanta. Tra violenza e passioni, cattolico senso di colpa e rimorso si dipana la storia dei tentativi del giovane protagonista per raggiungere la propria identità e affrancarsi dalla stretta del padre, odiato ma anche oscuramente compatito. Bloccato da un senso di inadeguatezza, il ragazzo, primo nemico di se stesso, non riuscirà a fare il suo ingresso nel mondo così come i suoi talenti promettono....

With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a ne...

A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín).A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of both the man and the woman, the novel recreate...

The provocative novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín).A writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love is in direct contrast to the tenderness...

With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is 'one of the most volatile, vital and unsafe novels in Irish literature', banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 - and just as explosive today.He was coming and there was nothing to do but wait and grow hard as stone and lie.Mahoney grows up in fear of his father: of his beatings with the heavy leather strap; of the nights he wants love. Seeking to escape the claustrophobic family farm, he contemplates...

An exquisite short story collection from 'one of the greatest Irish writers' (Cillian Murphy).The jilted lover in a Dublin pub on a summer evening; the bitter climax between a father and son as a marriage begins; the fortunes and misfortunes of an Irish family; the memories of an ageing priest.John McGahern - the Booker shortlisted author of modern classic Amongst Women, celebrated as 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) - is ha...

With a new foreword by Yiyun Li, this beloved memoir of an Irish childhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of classics like Amongst Women is a 'healing book' (Sebastian Barry)'McGahern is about as close as we get to Proust.' GuardianI am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperc...

È stato per molti critici il Cechov irlandese, per la sua abilità nel tratteggiare la dura vita rurale in racconti illuminati da una grazia cupa. D'altra parte, alla penna aveva sempre alternato il lavoro in cantiere e la zappa nella sua fattoria. Autore pluripremiato e considerato tra i grandi di sempre nella terra di Joyce e Beckett, in Italia sono stati pubblicati tre dei suoi romanzi: "Il pornografo" e "Moran tra le donne" (Einaudi), e "The Dark" (minimum fax), bandito dalla censura ne...