On Canaans Side, Sebastian Barry
On Canaans Side, Sebastian Barry
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On Canaans Side

Author: Sebastian Barry

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2011

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

From the twotime Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Beres life over seventeen days, On Canaans Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lillys story unfolds as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the Great Depression to World War II and the Vietnam War, it is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing.

About Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry, named Irish fiction laureate in 2018, is a playwright and author whose novels include A Long Long Way, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was The Secret Scripture, which was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Irish Novel of the Year. His plays have been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet

If you've read a few Barry novels this feels formulaic and repetitive. A woman at the end of her long life narrates her story, echoing The Secret Scripture and she has to flee Ireland because of finding herself on an IRA death list, echoing The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty. It's odd he wrote this af......more

Goodreads review by Maria

Sencillamente, magnífico! Después de leer Un caballero provisional no pude resistirme a leer algo más de este genial escritor y, con seguridad, ahora mismo empezaría otro libro suyo. En este caso, nos encontramos ante la historia de una mujer que tuvo que luchar por sobrevivir en una tierra nueva y......more