Sebastian Barry

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

A beautiful, savage, tender, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go.' Donal Ryan'A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years.' Kazuo Ishiguro'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive.Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten.

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Dans les années 1850, chassé d'Irlande par la Grande Famine, le jeune Thomas McNulty vient tenter sa chance en Amérique. Il rencontre John Cole, qui devient l'ami et l'amour de sa vie. Tour a tour, Thomas et John vont combattre les Indiens des grandes plaines de l'Ouest, se travestir en femmes pour monter des spectacles, et s'engager du côté de l'Union dans la guerre de Sécession. Jusqu'a ce que la violence de la guerre les rattrape…Sebastian Barry dessine le portrait d'une famille touchante et inhabituelle, composée de ce couple inséparable, de Winona, leur fille adoptive sioux, et du vieux poète noir McSweny, et pose un regard neuf sur une des périodes les plus brutales de l'histoire américaine.

A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture.Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him.Jack is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp.A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

"Roseanne McNulty e una centenaria reclusa in manicomio. Il Dr. Grene e il suo psichiatra. Entrambi stanno scrivendo: lei, clandestinamente, sta completando la sua autobiografia; lui scrive il suo diario. Roseanne racconta della sua famiglia e della sua stessa vita in rovina per aver cercato di aiutare un ribelle, durante la guerra civile irlandese. Sposata, e stata ripudiata dal marito e si e ritrovata sola e povera per lungo tempo, costretta a vivere in una capanna. Dopo anni di isolamento, ha passato una notte con suo cognato, Eneas, e rimasta incinta, completamente sola, ha partorito un bambino, sottrattole poi nel sonno. Accusata di infanticidio, e stata reclusa in manicomio. Il dr. Grene nei suoi diari racconta invece le ricerche che sta facendo sulla sua paziente Roseanne, la cui vita, nei documenti ufficiali, e molto diversa dalla verita che lei racconta. Il dottore non e per niente convinto della versione ufficiale e tende a credere alla sua paziente. Poco a poco, emerge la menzogna piu grande: il neonato per cui e stata accusata di infanticidio non e morto, ma e stato affidato a un orfanotrofio. Quel bambino portava il nome del dottore. "

Con sólo dieciocho años, Willie Dunne, hijo de un policía de Dublín, deja su ciudad en 1914 para luchar por la causa de los Aliados. William, por falta de estatura, no ha podido seguir los pasos de su padre para entrar en el cuerpo de policía y eso lo lleva a alistarse para cumplir con su deber patriótico. De este modo el protagonista se convierte en un símbolo de la experiencia de miles de soldados irlandeses, Sebastian Barry incide en el oscuro asunto de la intervención de Irlanda en la Primera Guerra Mundial, mezclándolo con el Alzamiento de Semana Santa, germen del movimiento republicano irlandés. Escrita con la hermosa prosa de Barry, esta conmovedora novela evoca la crueldad y tristeza de la guerra, así como la lealtad dividida que sintieron muchos soldados irlandeses. Siguiendo las experiencias del conflicto a través del corazón del joven soldado protagonista, la narración explora cómo este proceso político afectó a los soldados que luchaban por el rey de Inglaterra en campos extranjeros; las dudas que los paralizaron y la división que causó entre ellos. Una historia sobre identidad y conflicto nacional con la que Sebastian Barry consigue una narración de profunda tristeza y abrumadora compasión que parece dar con la verdad de la condición humana. Una novela poderosa.

Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Mental hospital where she´s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure.Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, her story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland´s changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Sebastian BarryRoseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret, history of Ireland. Exquisitely written, it is the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

"Roseanne McNulty está a punto de cumplir cien años, pero no conoce su edad con certeza, nadie la conoce. Roseanne se enfrenta a un futuro también incierto puesto que el Hospital de Roscommon, en el que ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta, va a ser cerrado. Durante las semanas previas a este acontecimiento perturbador, Roseanne conversa con su psiquiatra, el doctor Grene. La relación entre ambos, discreta pero de confianza después de tantos años, se intensifica y se complica a causa del duelo del doctor Grene por la muerte de su esposa.A través de la alternancia de los diarios de ambos personajes, se va tejiendo una narración profundamente hermosa, y la vida de Roseanne, reflejada en la bruma de la memoria y del recuerdo, se convierte en un recorrido por la historia secreta de Irlanda. Exquisitamente escrita, Barry nos permite recorrer una vida plagada de abusos, muerte y guerra, pero sin olvidar la impronta del amor, la pasión y la esperanza. Por esta maravillosa historia, Sebastian Barry, ha sido finalista —por segunda vez consecutiva— del Man Booker Prize."

Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan´s Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly´s narrative unfurls 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, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.

Condenado a muerte por un delito que no ha cometido, Eneas McNulty encarna aquí al antihéroe de nuestro tiempo, víctima y testigo de la intolerancia y el fanatismo a que dio origen la lucha por la in

Old Gods Time (March 2023), Sebastian Barrys stunning new novel, available to pre-order nowFrom the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without EndEven when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to liveaWinona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole.Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. Told in Sebastian Barryas rare and masterly prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one womanas journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enduring human capacity for love.aNobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does.a ALI SMITH

There were no saints in any era, Tom knew, just good men and bad, and sometimes both in the one bottle. Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea.