Colin Barrett

One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024**A small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybody's lives...'Sublime… [Wild Houses is] a thrillingly moreish novel… and held me captive until the very last page' Sunday Times'Strange and beautiful... A book to live inside' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People'A gift of true storytelling... Barrett's talent burns up the page' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The WrenAs Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian's teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins and goaded by his dead mother's dog, Dev is drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy.

One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024**A small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybody's lives...'Sublime… [Wild Houses is] a thrillingly moreish novel… and held me captive until the very last page' Sunday Times'Strange and beautiful... A book to live inside' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People'A gift of true storytelling... Barrett's talent burns up the page' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The WrenAs Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.

Actualice el pasado. Dé nueva vida a material que parecía irrecuperable. Restaure fotografías antiguas y envíelas a familiares y amigos. Elimine los crujidos en el tocadiscos y los dilbidos de las cintas. Convierta sus peliculas caseras en producciones de profesional.

From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS - a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection.'A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life' Sally Rooney'Addictive, stylish and violently funny... An outstanding collection' Kevin BarryIn these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd. A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won't simply lay in wake. A shooting sees an everyday call-out lead a policewoman to confront the banality of her own existence.A true follow-up to his electrifying debut collection, HOMESICKNESS marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.

Nueve años después de debutar con el aclamado y premiado "Glanbeigh", el irlandés Colin Barrett regresa con una nueva colección de relatos. En estas ocho historias, casi todas ellas ambientadas en el condado de Mayo, Barrett disecciona con ojo clinico y una buena dosis de humor negro el dia a dia de gente corriente que vive en ciudades deprimentes, conduce coches destartalados y trasiega pintas en pubs. Gente con tendencias suicidas, problemas mentales o simplemente mala suerte que a duras penas se mantiene a flote y se siente extranjera en su propia tierra.

Glanbeigh no se encuentra en ningún mapa, pero los anhelos, frustraciones y contratiempos de los habitantes de este pueblo imaginario del condado de Mayo, Irlanda, les resultarán familiares. Jóvenes con un futuro incierto que malviven mediante empleos ingratos o mal pagados (portero de discoteca, gasolinero, bedel), matones, traficantes poco profesionales; chicos a la deriva atrapados en un mundo cuyas unicas valvulas de escape son el alcohol, el sexo y la violencia, protagonizan los siete relatos que conforman este libro. Sobre ellos escribe Barrett "con afecto, sin condescendencia, viviendo sus vidas" (en palabras de Kiko Amat), y con un estilo solido y sugerente, aspero y a la vez poetico, que ha llamado la atencion de escritores como Anne Enright o Colm Toibin y ha hecho de "Glanbeigh" uno de los debuts literarios mas aclamados de los ultimos años.

This title was shortlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award. It was the winner of the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, as well as the winner of the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard and wear the scars. It matters whose sister you were seen with. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, it matters a very great deal. Colin Barrett's debut does not take us to Glanbeigh alone; there are other towns, and older characters. But each story is defined by a youth lived in a crucible of menace and desire - and each crackles with the uniform energy and force that distinguish this terrific collection.